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First real estate camera with software available.


PictureWorks Technology, Inc. has announced that it has introduced the world's first digital "real estate camera" with software designed for the newest line of "scriptable" Kodak zoom To change from a distant view to a more close-up view (zoom in) and vice versa (zoom out). An application may provide fixed or variable levels of zoom. A display adapter may also have built-in zoom capability.  digital cameras, strengthening the company's role as the dominant digital photography solutions provider to the real estate industry. PictureWorks also announced that it has signed an agreement with Kodak to become a value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution.  (VAR) of Kodak's digital cameras.

The new Kodak Digital Science DC220 and DC260 zoom digital cameras allow users to customize the camera's "scriptable" operating system operating system (OS)

Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs.
. Using these "scripts," users can program the camera to direct them to take the best possible pictures and achieve the results they desire, whether it is a virtual tour of a property or a super-wide panorama panorama

Narrative scene or landscape painted to conform to a curved or flat background, which surrounds or is unrolled before the viewer. Popular in the late 18th and 19th centuries, it was an antecedent of the stereopticon and motion pictures.
 of an entire neighborhood.

"PictureWorks continues to demonstrate its leadership in the real estate industry with software that supports the unique scripting features in the new Kodak Digital Science zoom digital cameras," said Don Strickland, PictureWorks Technology's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "It's an operating system that literally lets you tell your camera what you want it to do. It then guides you through the steps to take the best picture and automatically drops it into the proper program."

The real estate professional can now take pictures and let the camera automatically build a virtual tour of a property or a superwide panorama of an entire neighborhood. The agent can also collect the property and listing details and create a catalogue or folder In a graphical user interface (GUI), a simulated file folder that holds data, applications and other folders. Folders were introduced on the Xerox Star, then popularized on the Macintosh and later adapted to Windows and Unix. In Unix and Linux, as well as DOS and Windows 3.  of images and information to better market the property for sale.

"We are introducing this camera with three software programs that operate on the new scriptable operating platform to give the real estate professional more control and the ability to pro-program settings and camera operation," said Lisa Wood, cofounder co·found  
tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds
To establish or found in concert with another or others.



co·found
 and vice president of the Real Estate Business Unit.

"These new cameras include our real estate imaging software, creating the most powerful combination of hardware and software today. It's the perfect solution for real estate professionals who want to use digital photography to get images into their e-mail messages or onto their Web site, and ultimately become even more successful."

The scriptable cameras also feature audio input and playback Playback could mean:
  • The re-playing of recorded media.
  • Gapless playback, the seamless playback of digital audio formats (i. e. ipods, mp3 players)
  • Playback singer, a practice in Bollywood musicals.
 that lets users record sound with their images. and a video output so users can see their digital images on a television screen or monitor.

PictureWorks is offering different camera and software combinations that contain one of the Kodak "scriptable" zoom digital cameras, along with PictureWorks Technology's Professional Real Estate Imaging Toolkit.

For more information, visit PictureWorks Technology, Inc. www.pictureworks.com.
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Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Date:Sep 9, 1998
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