It differs from its predecessor, the DP1x, because its lens now includes one "F" Low Dispersion glass element to correct aberrations, and its resolution has grown by moving from Foveon's 14.6-megapixel APS-C size image sensor to the 46-megapixel APS-C image sensor found in the company's flagship SLR, the Sigma SD1 Merrill.

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C. dozens of cabinets the size of toaster ovens whir quietly on countertops.

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By 1999 the two parties formed Haier America Trading Co. to broaden the line, and nine months later they opened a factory in Camden, S.C. to make full-size refrigerators for the U.S. market.

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It was a vastly scaled-down take on a scrapped project to make forklift-size robotic floor scrubbers for household-cleaner giant S.C.

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