Another firm, Noritsu Koki, supplies half the mini-photo processing labs used in camera shops and kiosks around the world.
Instead, it uses a stationary pump about the size of a lunchbox to inject active, or "vegetative, " bacteria harmless strains of facultative anaerobes into the drains of restaurants, meatpackers, hospitals and photo processing labs.
"If the tax office hadn't called, I wouldn't be where I am now, " laughs the 33-year-old, now president of Plaza Create, Japan's largest photo-processing chain, with over 800 shops.
Cell phones had cameras for at least that long before the traditional photo taking and processing business was seriously threatened.
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Google has scooped up more than 50 tiny software firms that have created various online applications: calendars, social networks, maps, blogs, photo sharing and word processing.
Some photographers have thrown every filter and post-processing technique at a photo and called the result art.
The supplied image processing software, "SIGMA Photo Pro", converts RAW data quickly and easily.
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That is iMac desktops are the hub from which your mobile devices can sync and share information, but the hub provides greater storage and a larger screen for more labor-intensive "processing" such as document or photo album creation.
First, I created an identical word-processing document, with text in various styles and a photo, and then exported it to Microsoft Word on a PC and Mac.
Officers were alerted by photo shop when developers became concerned about several pictures on a roll of film handed in for processing.
Casio's original Dynamic Photo function, which creates composite moving images using the camera's own high-speed image processing technology, now does even more.
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As expected, the iPhone 5 will run on the fastest LTE networks and have much faster processing speeds that enable users to load music apps 2.1x faster or images from photo apps 1.7x faster.
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