Visitors also will have a chance to have their snapshots taken with a digital camera. Fuji employees will guide visitors through options for storing, printing and sharing the photos with friends and relatives. Imaging companies such as Fuji and Kodak are emphasizing the versatility of digital photography. In addition to making prints either at home or at photo centers, digital images can easily be sent through e-mail and viewed on television. Fuji and Kodak are also encouraging consumers to upload photos to their Web sites, where they can be viewed by friends and family or made into prints.
Digital photography is still most popular among the tech-savvy.
Michelle Lampmann, market research analyst at InfoTrends Research Group Inc., said that people with Internet access are twice as likely to have a digital camera. About 25 percent of households with Internet access had a digital camera in 2000, compared to 12 percent overall, InfoTrends reports. Sales of digital cameras are increasing, though growth has tapered off from 100 percent in 1998 to a projected 48 percent in 2001, Tussy said. Worldwide, 8.6 million digital cameras were sold in 2000, 3.8 million of them in the United States, Tussy said. Sony, Fuji and Olympus are tied for No. 1 in the worldwide market for digital cameras with 23 percent of sales each.