Sony Corp has joined forces with Japanese camera company Konica Corp to develop a digital imaging system designed to record film and printed images on Sony’s 2.5 Mini Discs. Challenging Eastman Kodak Co Photo CD, the system enables users to record images from photographic negative films, slides, prints and printed materials directly onto the optical disks, and edit the recorded images and manipulate them into various formats. The system comprises an image recorder, an image processor and a scanner. Up to 200 images can be written on one disk, and it takes seven seconds to record one negative. The prices and marketing have not yet been set.
