Advanced Shadow Adjustment Technology adjusts dark areas within an image shot under backlit conditions so that a subject's face can be revealed even under strong lighting, and Hand-Held Starlight mode, which helps users at night by capturing multiple images and stitching them together into a single, crisp photo, can now be used with a flash.
There was a time a generation ago when cancer patients had to trudge into dark basement offices of city hospitals to get the most advanced radiation treatments.
The ultimate problem is the American press whose negative reports on the Japanese economy have left even the most sophisticated Americans in the dark about the real Japan story: remarkably fast progress in advanced manufacturing in the last two decades.