Can You Picture This?

Kodak's new Photo CD system offers casual shutterbugs their first glimpse of a revolution that is sweeping the world of photography

Starting this month, Americans taking their vacation snapshots to be developed will be offered a choice that may seem mystifying. In addition to the usual range of options -- from color slides to jumbo prints -- they will be invited to have their pictures scanned by a computer and stored on a "Photo CD" -- a compact disc that looks just like one that might play the latest Guns N' Roses release but in fact stores all the shots of the kids and the Grand Canyon in digital form. These newfangled photo albums hold up to 100 images, stored for a...

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