Nikon Bundles Altamira Genuine Fractals With New Coolpix 990 Digital Camera; Scaling Software Enables High-Quality Enlargements of Digital Photographs.Business Editors BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 2000 Building upon an established relationship, Nikon and Altamira Group Inc. have reached an agreement to bundle Altamira Genuine Fractals Genuine Fractals [1] is a Photoshop plug-in developed and distributed by onOne Software of Portland, Oregon. Genuine Fractals was originally designed and developed by Steven Bender (co-founder of Altamira Group) and his team in 1996. limited-edition software with Nikon's new, top-of-the-line Coolpix 990 digital camera, which is slated for shipment in April of this year. This new bundling agreement follows the success of bundling the limited edition of Altamira Genuine Fractals with the Nikon Super Coolscan 2000 (LS2000) and the Nikon Coolscan III (LS30) film/slide scanners, announced in August of 1999. "The Coolpix 990 is designed to put the best in digital photography into the hands of the serious photographer," said Bill Giordano, national marketing manager of Nikon's Digital Imaging Products. "Our agreement with Altamira plays an important part in delivering on this promise. With Genuine Fractals, the output of enlarged files is virtually indistinguishable from its source." "We are pleased to continue our relationship with Nikon," added Dennis Aubrey, Altamira's chief executive. "Nikon's high-quality original images and Altamira's superior scaling enables the photographers to perform at optimum levels." The Coolpix 990 CCD CCD in full charge-coupled device Semiconductor device in which the individual semiconductor components are connected so that the electrical charge at the output of one device provides the input to the next device. captures 3.34 megapixels or 9 MB of true noninterpolated image resolution at 2048 x 1536 pixels, which would produce an 8x10 inch print at 200 dpi. The Altamira Genuine Fractals 2.0 LE software included in the bundle enables users of the Coolpix 990 to save images as resolution-free files that can be enlarged well beyond their original size with unmatched fidelity to the original. For example, the above-mentioned 8x10 image can be reproduced as a 20x27 inch print without compromising image quality. Users of the Coolpix 990 are eligible to purchase the full version of Genuine Fractals for a special discounted price. The full version of Genuine Fractals 2.0, the award-winning file format plug-in for Adobe(R) Photoshop(R), is the only software on the market that is able to encode photographic quality images as scalable, reusable assets, which can be rendered to any size or resolution without sacrificing image quality. The plug-in allows Lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. or Visually Lossless encoding and provides three scaling options for quality vs. speed. In addition to RGB color Typically refers to 24-bit color. See color palette, 24-bit color, 16-bit color and 8-bit color. mode, the full version also supports Grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in , Indexed Color, Multichannel Using two or more paths for transmission or processing. It can refer to a variety of architectures including (1) multiple I/O channels between the CPU and peripheral devices, (2) multiple wires in a cable, (3) multiple "logical" channels within a single wire or fiber or (4) multiple (up to 16 channels) and Duotone Du´o`tone n. 1. (Photoengraving) Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed. color modes. And, for photographers and designers who need to work in 4-color separations for conventional printing, Altamira's PrintPro plug-in is available offering additional support for CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK) The color space used for commercial printing and most color computer printers. In theory, cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY) can print all colors, but inks are not pure and black comes out muddy. and CIE-Lab color modes. Genuine Fractals 2.0 is priced at $159 and PrintPro is $299. Both products are available for Macintosh(R) PowerPC and Windows(R) 95/98/NT platforms and, in addition to Adobe Photoshop, are compatible with all versions of Adobe PhotoDeluxe(R) as well as Corel PhotoPaint(R) 9 and JASC JASC Japan-America Student Conference JASC Jebel Ali Sailing Club (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) JASC Jets and Software Company (maker of Paint Shop Pro) JASC Joint Actions Steering Committee Paint Shop Pro(R) 5.03. About Nikon Nikon Inc. is the U.S. distributor of world-renowned Nikon professional 35mm photography systems, Nikon digital still cameras, film scanners, compact interchangeable Nikkor lenses, Nikonos underwater photographic systems, Nikon biosciences, industrial and microelectronics inspection and measuring systems, and Nikon surveying and ophthalmic instruments. About Altamira Group Inc. Altamira Group, with headquarters in Burbank, is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation that develops and markets leading-edge image scaling and resolution-on-demand technology. Altamira has revolutionized the way companies create, store and electronically deliver digital images of any size or resolution on-demand to their customers, resulting in significant process efficiencies and cost savings. More information about the company and Altamira Group's award-winning products and services can be found at http://www.altamira-group.com. |
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