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remember that picture I took of Richard with this digital camera well look all I have to do now he's plugged into my computer and it works with a PC and a Mac choose the image that I want I think I'll take this one and I've got a picture in about two minutes pretty good shot huh and it's really fast a lot faster than one hour photo so with digital technology like this driving to your local photo Matt could be a thing of the past digital cameras which record images directly into memory rather than on film allows cyber shooters to snap and download images directly into their computers most people shoot their pictures with conventional cameras and film but now with digital cameras you can actually store those images with removable memory cards like this or on the hard drive or even on the internal memory of the camera you just connect the camera to your computer download the images you want and voila you've got pictures Alex Berliner is a Hollywood photographer whose job depends on making the front page using a high-end digital camera and high-speed phone lines alex's images span the globe in minutes tell me more when we're shooting for the Hollywood quarter the Academy Awards we will shoot these modem them to production they will go directed press and be printed at think around midnight the food chicks and I kind of hybrid looks nothing like a standard camp this is the the new b-2 stealth bomber of digital cameras at a cost of over $20,000 the food Jaques Nikon uses removable PCMCIA style hard drives up to 131 megabytes and will store up to about 70 images you see the guest militants carrying these things when they go to somewhere like buffer because what they'll do is they'll shoot some stuff they will get at a cellular system hooked up to the Mac and unloading stuff back once the image is shot the hard drive or flash card can be downloaded and stored in a computer there the images cropped or color corrected by a Photoshop a graphic software program saved in a compressed image format then transmitted by a modem anywhere on the planet are you please step in please also on the high end portrait quality prints in about two minutes are available at tourist haunts everywhere the three chips Sony dkc 5000 has a resolution of over a million pixels okay and if we just have a little smile in this direction it's hooked directly to a processor and dry prints on photographic paper pop out and yep in under two minutes look at that do look at that hairdo the question is do you want to keep them professionals aren't the only ones using digital cameras companies like Kodak Apple Casio and I can't offer them for an average cost of $800 and these low inversions store about 54 images the resolution that compared to that of a $20 bucks camera engineers advertisers and businesses use these digit cams daily real estate agents take pictures in the field download them into their computers and right into weekly listings Andrew MacDonald and his buddy Tom are big-time burrito eaters with a web page devoted entirely to the burrito is what burritos yeah there's such a huge plate of food using the just released casio QV 10 the burrito brothers scour the city for the ultimate roll then download the pictures into their sometimes daily burrito review this is a free burrito so you know we're still hungry just through this fun thing and Tommy I didn't get there you go out take pictures of food take rest of each other eating the food the people serving us the food and we create this little website we have it running right now cyber gasps it's the next problem we're facing on the net you