Jim,
Olympus is very large in the imaging businesses (CCD) in the
medical field - endoscope. Another fact is that Olympus'
CCD endoscope dominates more than 900f the worldwide market
share.
Jim Terazawa
>
>
> I've been fidgeting about this thread since it began, and can
> no longer resist. The comment that got me off the fence:
>
> > This is at least part true, and at least part happening, at least
> > in the price-is-no-object world.
>
> is an interesting one, because this is where some of Olympus' recent
> offerings are to be found. The bad news is that this arena isn't
> conventional photographic systems.
>
> About a week and a half ago, my wife came home from work sporting a
> spiffy new neck cord for her hospital ID. The cord has the official
> Olympus logo plastered all over, and no, I haven't been able to wrest
> it away, yet :-) There's a story associated with her trinket...
>
> It seems that Olympus has been busy integrating digital capture
> capabilities into their medical imaging products, and at least one
> major teaching hospital in the Philadelphia area will be evaluating
> one of these systems in the immediate future (I'll let the list know
> how it went, and whether there were any more Olympus goodies to be
> had :-) ). All I know at this time about the imaging system in
> question is that it generated immediate interest amongst those who
> saw the initial demo (yes, they know about demos). The actual field
> trial begins in another few weeks.
>
> I confess that I'm totally ignorant of happenings in the medical
> imaging field, but my impression is that Olympus may have a
> leading-edge product here (again). I think it also reinforces the
> previous observations that Olympus is moving away from silver-based
> imaging systems. Compared to the other familiar names (Canon, Nikon,
> Minolta), Olympus is a comparatively small company, with a
> correspondingly small development capability, and they've apparently
> put what few eggs they have in the digital imaging basket...
>
>
> jim
>
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