Radical Component - Combactflash

Type Name Description Who When Impact on society Impact on Industry

Radical Component CombactFlash

It is a mass storage device format used in portable electronic devices. For storage, CompactFlash typically uses flash memory in a standardized enclosure. SanDisk 1994 It allows customers to store larger amount of photos.

It provides customers with portability which they need.

It provides ease of use.

For example, Digital cameras before CombactFlash was using Floppy Desks 1.5 inch which was limited in size, difficult to carry and complex to operate.

At the end, people are more connected digitally through exchanging of photos. They can take photos everywhere and any time without concerns about number of photos and storage quality. It meets customers need so diffusion occurred.

It enabled manufacturers to produce compact digital cameras.

It affected the product life cycle of normal digital cameras to the growth phase creating new opportunities for manufacturers.

Flash memory, regardless of format, is limited to a finite number of erase/write cycles for any "block," before that block can no longer be written to successfully. Typically, the controller in a CompactFlash device attempts to prevent premature wear of a sector by choosing the write location for a piece of data so as to spread the writing over the device. This process is called wear leveling.

When using CompactFlash in ATA mode as a hard drive replacement, wear leveling becomes critical. The advanced CompactFlash controllers spread the wear-leveling across the entire drive allowing all blocks to participate. The more advanced CompactFlash controllers will move data that rarely changes to ensure all blocks wear evenly.

Radical System Digital Camera

It is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor.

Digital cameras differ from their analog predecessors primarily in that they do not use film, but capture and save photographs on digital memory cards or internal storage instead. Kodak 1991 With minituration of cameras and the move to digital images that are readily sent to computer systems showing up on the evening news.

Individuals at all income levels can capture images and submit them as proof of inappropriate police or government agent actions.

High definition and now digital broadcasting offer better images and more programs.

The evolution of high speed photography gave us insight into how minute high speed process work, So we can now study the effects of explosions by slowing down the high speed records; we can see the motion of bodies during exercise and relate that to computer models.

It increases customer demand and expectations. Their low operating costs have relegated chemical cameras to niche markets and increases the margin for manufacturers.

It affected the business model since no need for film developing and create more need for digital printing.

It affected the product life cycle of conventional cameras to the growth phase creating new opportunities for manufacturers or new comers of industry especially those who had an experience in Digital Manufacturing. So competition became harder.

Incremental Compact digital cameras

Compact cameras are designed to be tiny and portable and are particularly suitable for casual and "snapshot" use, thus are also called point-and-shoot cameras. The smallest, generally less than 20 mm thick, are described as subcompacts or "ultra-compacts" and some are nearly Sony 1996 Compact cameras are usually designed to be easy to use, sacrificing advanced features and picture quality for compactness and simplicity; images can usually only be stored using lossy compression (JPEG). Most have a built-in flash usually of low power, sufficient for nearby subjects. Live preview is almost always used to frame the photo. Most have limited motion picture capability. Compacts often have macro capability and zoom lenses but the zoom range is usually less than for bridge and DSLR cameras. Generally a contrast-detect autofocus system, using the image data from the live preview feed of the main imager, focuses the lens.

Typically, these cameras incorporate a nearly-silent leaf shutter into their