ELECTRONICS companies are currently promoting digital cameras which record
images onto a memory chip for playback through a TV or computer. Their more
conventional rivals are the advanced photographic system cameras, which take a
small sealed film cassette. Hitachi is now patenting (WO 96/36167) a camera that
can work with both of these systems.
Hitachi’s camera has a compartment shaped to take a film cartridge. But it
can also take a cartridge containing memory chips instead of film. Pictures
taken with this cartridge can then be loaded onto a player which connects to a
TV or computer. Barry Fox
