REPORT FROM JAPAN

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC LIGHTING AND CAMERA PHONE FLASH?

When Goko Camera Company Ltd. years ago saw its market for 8 and 16mm movie editing equipment decline, it swiftly and successfully turned to OEM manufacturing 35mm cameras for many major camera companies. With that now disappearing, Goko has taken to tomato and prawn farming. Abandoning imaging? Never. Highly innovative MacromaX LZ3-2 lens for 35mm and digital SLRs provides .8X-2.4X macrozoom magnification at f/27-f/49 with TTL exposure by 18 LEDs around front lens circumference. Small apertures provide amazing depth of field for such high magnification. Sales will begin in 2004, probably in Europe first.

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