Associated Press

TOKYO - Japan’s top camera maker, Canon Inc., will stop developing new single-lens reflex film cameras as more people abandon film for digital, company officials said Thursday.

The Tokyo-based Canon’s move followed a similar move by its closest Japanese rival, Nikon Corp., which announced earlier this year it would stop making seven of its nine film cameras and concentrate on digital models.

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Kodak to Increase Prices for Consumer & Professional Photographic Papers and Processing Chemistry

Increasing Raw Material Costs Lead to Price Action

Press Release, Eastman Kodak Company

ROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 22, 2006–Eastman Kodak Company announced today that it will increase prices on its range of consumer and professional silver halide-based photographic papers and processing chemistry on a worldwide basis.

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In this handout photo from Yahoo! Shelly Fergus, left, competes against Sabel, a six-year-old chimpanzee, in Yahoo! Techs Man vs. Monkey Technology Challenge in New York Citys Bryant Park, pitting human against chimp in a race to shoot and print a digital image.

The event promoted Yahoo! Tech, a new Web site from the Internet company, that offers technology information in a language anyone can understand. According to General Manager Patrick Houston, Yahoo! Tech makes technology so easy a monkey can do it.

(AP Photo/Clark Jones,Yahoo!, HO)

By PETER SVENSSON, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK - With its market eviscerated by digital photography, Eastman Kodak Co. last year stopped making black-and-white photo paper.

It was a loss most photographers could live with, except for a few who dreaded the loss of Azo, a paper with unusual characteristics that Kodak had made continuously since 1898. Other papers “just are not as beautiful,” said Michael A. Smith, a photographer who prints all of his work on Azo.

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