2002 DIMA Innovative Digital Product Awards Announced By
Mike Pasini, The Imaging Resource (Tuesday, February 26, 2002 - 21:20 EST)Foveon's X3 Leads the Innovators...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Fifteen of the hundreds of digital products on display here at the PMA 2002 Annual International Convention & Trade Show were honored today with the Digital Imaging Marketing Association Innovative Digital Product Award. The annual award is one of several events sponsored by the Digital Imaging Marketing Association, a section of PMA.
An Innovative Digital Product of PMA 2002 is awarded by the judges to companies that use new technologies and/or applications to make their product either unique or the first of its kind. These high-end products often influence the future of digital imaging. Whether the product is hardware or software, amateur or professional, photographic or prepress, or any other segment, is irrelevant. Judges were simply asked to cover the PMA Trade Show floor with an eye to the innovative.
Companies honored for their innovative digital products are:
I N N O V A T I V E D I G I T A L P R O D U C T
Company
Product
Foveon Inc. Santa Clara, Calif. USA
Foveon X3
Sigma Corp. Ronkonkoma, N.Y. USA
Sigma SD9
Leica Camera Inc. Northvale, N.J. USA
Leica Digilux
Adobe Systems Inc. San Jose, Calif. USA
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
Minolta Corp. Ramsey, N.J. USA
Minolta DiMAGE X Digital Camera
Pixel Magic Imaging San Marcos, Texas USA
Pixel Magic Megapixel PhotoStation
Nikon Inc. Melville, N.Y. USA
Nikon D-100 Digital SLR
Applied Science Fiction Austin, Texas USA
Dry PIC Technology
Applied Science Fiction Austin, Texas USA
Digital ROC Software
Phogenix Imaging San Diego, Calif. USA
Phogenix DFX Digital Inkjet Mini Lab
Concord Camera Corp. Hollywood, Fla. USA
Eye-QIR Digital Camera
Hi-Touch Imaging Technologies Pan-Chiao City, Taiwan