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is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese company known for its photographic film
Photographic film

Photographic film is a sheet of plastic coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide salts with variable crystal sizes that determine the sensitivity, contrast and of the film....
 and camera
Camera

A camera is a device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies. The term comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism of projecting images where an entire room functioned as a real-time imaging system; the modern camera evolved from the camera obscura....
s. Fujifilm is the world’s largest photographic and imaging company . Fuji operates 223 subsidiary companies for research, manufacture and distribution of products, with manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, and the United States of America. They also produce computer media storage consumables, such as CD-R
CD-R

A CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session....
s ,recordable DVDs
DVD recordable

DVD recordable and DVD rewritable refer to DVD optical disc formats that can be DVD recorder , either wiktionary:write once or rewritable format written by laser, as compared to DVD-ROM, which is mass-produced by pressing....
 and Floppy disks. The company is also a substantial provider of Motion Picture Film to Hollywood for both capture and distribution of theatrical(in projector) film prints.






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is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese company known for its photographic film
Photographic film

Photographic film is a sheet of plastic coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide salts with variable crystal sizes that determine the sensitivity, contrast and of the film....
 and camera
Camera

A camera is a device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies. The term comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism of projecting images where an entire room functioned as a real-time imaging system; the modern camera evolved from the camera obscura....
s. Fujifilm is the world’s largest photographic and imaging company . Fuji operates 223 subsidiary companies for research, manufacture and distribution of products, with manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, and the United States of America. They also produce computer media storage consumables, such as CD-R
CD-R

A CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session....
s ,recordable DVDs
DVD recordable

DVD recordable and DVD rewritable refer to DVD optical disc formats that can be DVD recorder , either wiktionary:write once or rewritable format written by laser, as compared to DVD-ROM, which is mass-produced by pressing....
 and Floppy disks. The company is also a substantial provider of Motion Picture Film to Hollywood for both capture and distribution of theatrical(in projector) film prints. The company was formerly known as Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.

Fuji's camera film comes in distinctive green boxes and is sometimes rebranded as own-label film, such as President's Choice
President's Choice

President's Choice is the store brand of Loblaw Companies Limited, the largest food retailer in Canada. The PC brand includes a wide variety of food, drinks and consumer products, and services, such as President's Choice Financial services....
. Fuji products are distinct in their uniform containers. Fuji photographic films are considered along with, and often compete against, those produced by Eastman Kodak
Eastman Kodak

Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational corporation public company which produces imaging and photography materials and equipment. Long known for its wide range of photographic film products, Kodak is re-focusing on two major markets: digital photography and digital printing....
. Their products are sold in over 200 countries internationally. Since 1982, Fuji, is one of the main sponsors of the FIFA World Cup
FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the List of men's national association football teams of the members of F?d?ration Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global govern...
.

The company was the driving force behind the creation of Japan's first electronic computer, called FUJIC
FUJIC

FUJIC was the first Von Neumann architecture computer built in Japan. It was finished in March of 1956, the project having been effectively started in 1949, and was essentially built almost entirely by one person ? Dr....
, completed in 1956.

History

Founded in 1934, the company's very first product was a motion picture film. Hence, 2009 is Fujifilm's 75th anniversary in the motion picture industry.

Holding company

On September 19, 2006, Fujifilm announced plans to establish a holding company, Fujifilm Holdings Corp. Fujifilm and Fuji Xerox will become subsidiaries of the holding company. A representative of the company reconfirmed their commitment to film, which accounts for 3% of sales.

Subsidiaries

Fujifilm Fuji Xerox
Fuji Xerox

is a joint venture partnership between the Japan photography firm Fujifilm and the United States document management company Xerox to develop, produce and sell xerographic and document-related products and services in the Asia-Pacific region....
, once a joint venture between itself and Xerox Corporation
Xerox

Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white Computer printer, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies....
 of North America. Fujifilm purchased Sericol Ltd., a UK based printing ink company specializing in screen, narrow web, and digital print technologies in March 2005.

Notable products

Fuji Blimp
Fuji16mm64d
* Motion picture film stock, known for its smooth grain and vibrant color rendition. Most Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
 films are shot on Fuji stock.
  • Fujichrome color reversal (slide) films.
    • Velvia
      Velvia

      Velvia is a brand of daylight-balanced transparency photographic film produced by the Japanese company Fujifilm. The name is a contraction of "Velvet Media", a reference to its smooth image structure....
      : one of the most saturated and fine-grained slide films, valued by nature and landscape photographers.
    • Provia
      Provia

      Provia is a brandname for a pair of white balance color reversal films produced by the Japanese film company Fujifilm. It is available in two Film speed: 100/21? marketed as Fujichrome Provia 100F Professional [RDP III], and 400/27? marketed as Fujichrome Provia 400X Professional [RXP]....
      : a slide film giving more natural colors than Velvia.
    • Astia: a fined grained, low contrast slide film often used for studio or portrait applications.
    • Sensia: consumer slide film, generally considered to be comparable to Provia in the professional line.
    • Fortia: consumer slide film, featuring extremely vivid color rendering suitable for flower photography and other high-saturation applications (for Japanese market).
  • Fujicolor color negative (print) films.
    • Fujicolor Pro
      Fujicolor Pro

      Fujicolor Pro is a line of professional color negative from Japanese company Fujifilm. It currently consists of Pro 160S, Pro 160C, Pro 400H, and Pro 800Z....
       160S, 160C, 400H, and 800Z (formerly NPS, NPC, NPH, and NPZ): Professional films with different levels of contrast.
    • Reala: the first film to use the fourth cyan-sensitive layer, currently sold under Superia Reala name.
    • Superia
      Fujifilm Superia

      Superia is a brand of daylight balanced colour Negative produced by the Japanese company Fujifilm. It is available in 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1600 speeds....
      : as of 2005, their most widely available film, intended for snapshots.
    • Press: Cut from the same emulsion stock as Superia, but cold stored and sold as a professional film.
  • Fuji Neopan Professional black & white negative film. As a side note, Neopan 400 and 1600 were designed to use the same developing times, and can be developed in the same tank/machine and developer combination simultaneously. ACROS and SS do not share this feature.
    • Neopan SS: ISO 100 film, most common and least expensive Neopan film
    • Neopan ACROS: ISO 100 film, finer grain than SS but usually more expensive
    • Neopan Presto: ISO 400 speed film
    • Neopan Super Presto: ISO 1600 for low-light shooting of fast action
  • The Clear Shot series of 35mm
    135 film

    The term 135 was introduced by Kodak in 1934 as a designation for Film cartridge film 35 mm wide, specifically for still photography. It quickly grew in popularity, surpassing 120 film by the late 1960s to become the most popular photographic film format....
     compact cameras.
The Fujifilm FinePix
Fujifilm FinePix

The Fujifilm FinePix products are a line of digital cameras produced by Fujifilm. They include compact point and shoot models, bridge digital cameras, and digital single-lens reflex cameras....
 series of digital camera
Digital camera

A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording digital image via an electronics .Many compact digital still cameras can record sound and moving video as well as still photographs....
s, some of which employ Fujifilm's Super CCD
Super CCD

Super CCD is a proprietary charge-coupled device that has been developed by Fujifilm since 1999. The Super CCD uses octagonal, rather than rectangular, pixels....
 technology, including F-mount compatible digital SLR
Digital single-lens reflex camera

A digital single-lens reflex camera is a digital camera that uses a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the photographic lens to an optical viewfinder on the back of the camera....
s like the FinePix S5 Pro
Finepix S5 Pro

The FinePix S5 Pro is a digital single lens reflex camera introduced by Fujifilm on2006-09-25. It replaces the previous FinePix S3 Pro and keeps the Nikon F mount compatibility, including DX size lenses....
, and compact cameras like the FinePix F-series
Fujifilm FinePix F-series

The Fujifilm FinePix F-series of digital cameras models which have been called "revolutionary" in terms of low-light performance in the compact class....
 and A-series
Fujifilm FinePix A-series

The Fujifilm FinePix A-series of digital cameras consists of the company's entry-level point and shoot models. The A-series was created in late 2001 and was expanded a few years later when Fujifilm transitioned to a fully alphanumeric system of naming their digital cameras....
.
  • Fujinon
    Fujinon

    Fujinon is a division of Fujifilm that specialises in the production of optical Photographic lenses for photographic, medical, video, and television use....
     lenses: including the most widely used television
    Television

    Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
     lenses in the world.
  • Photographic paper
    Photographic paper

    This article is about light-sensitive photographic media; for digital printing media please see Photo printer, photo paper and inkjet paper.Photographic paper is paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals, used for making photographic prints....
    .
  • Inkjet printer
    Inkjet printer

    File:Canon BJ-10v Lite inkjet printer with Scale.JPGInkjet printers operate by propelling variably-sized droplets of liquid or molten material onto almost any sized page....
     paper.
  • Magnetic media
    Magnetic storage

    Magnetic storage and magnetic recording are terms from engineering referring to the storage of data on a magnetized medium. Magnetic storage uses different patterns of magnetization in a magnetizable material to store data and is a form of non-volatile memory....
    , including audiotape, videotape
    Videotape

    Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to film stock.In most cases, a helical scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would require extremely high tape speeds....
    , and floppy disk
    Floppy disk

    A floppy disk is a data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangle plastic shell....
    s.
  • Optical media, such as DVDs
    DVD recordable

    DVD recordable and DVD rewritable refer to DVD optical disc formats that can be DVD recorder , either wiktionary:write once or rewritable format written by laser, as compared to DVD-ROM, which is mass-produced by pressing....
     and CDs
    CD-R

    A CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session....
    , mostly produced by Ritek and Taiyo Yuden
    Taiyo Yuden

    Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. is a Japanese materials and electronics company, situated in Ueno, Tokyo, Taito, Tokyo, that helped pioneer recordable CD technology along with Sony and Philips in 1988....
    ; some by Philips
    Philips

    Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , usually known as Philips, is a Netherlands electronics company. It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands....
    .
  • Photostimulable Phosphor Plate - X-ray
    X-ray

    X-radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nanometers, corresponding to frequency in the range 30 Hertz to 30 Hertz and energies in the range 120 Electron volt to 120 keV....
     film.
  • Base material for LCD displays.
  • The Fujifilm GX680 6x8cm medium format
    Medium format

    Medium format has traditionally referred to a film format in still photography and the related cameras and equipment that use this film. Generally, the term applies to film and cameras used to produce images larger than the 24 by 36 mm of 135 film, but smaller than the 4"?5" size, which is considered to be large format....
     camera, various Fujifilm medium format
    Medium format

    Medium format has traditionally referred to a film format in still photography and the related cameras and equipment that use this film. Generally, the term applies to film and cameras used to produce images larger than the 24 by 36 mm of 135 film, but smaller than the 4"?5" size, which is considered to be large format....
     rangefinder
    Rangefinder

    A rangefinder is a device that measures distance from the observer to a target, for the purposes of surveying, determining focus in photography, or accurately aiming a weapon....
     cameras, and older Fujica
    Fujica

    Fujica is the name given by Fujifilm of Japan to its line of still-photography and motion picture cameras.Here is a list of all the Fujica branded still photo cameras that were produced and their date of introduction....
     film cameras.
  • Fuji instant film
    Instant film

    Instant film is a photographic film that is designed to be used in an instant camera . The film contains thechemicals needed for developing and fixing the photo, and the instant camera exposes and initiates the film developing process after a photograph has been taken....
     packs and backs for sheet film cameras.
  • Minilab equipments, announced in 2006 a global alliance with Noritsu Kokoi, together holding a market share of more than 80% of the global market.
  • Digital X-Ray, Digital mammography
    Mammography

    Mammography is the process of using low-dose amplitude-X-rays to examine the human breast. The goal of mammography is the early detection of breast cancer, typically through detection of characteristic masses and/or microcalcifications....
     and Computed radiography
    Computed radiography

    Computed Radiography uses very similar equipment to conventional Radiography#Industrial radiography except that in place of a film to create the image, an imaging plate is used....
     devices.
  • Synapse PACS
    Picture archiving and communication system

    In medical imaging, picture archiving and communication systems are computers or networks dedicated to the storage, retrieval, distribution and presentation of images....
    .


See also

  • xD-Picture Card
    XD-Picture Card

    xD-Picture Card is a type of flash memory memory card, used mainly in digital cameras. xD originally stood for extreme Digital. The cards were developed by Olympus company and Fujifilm, and introduced into the market in July 2002....
  • DIGITAL Q1
    DIGITAL Q1

    The Digital Q1 is a FUJIFILM camera model....
     entry-level camera model
  • List of photographic equipment makers
    List of photographic equipment makers

    This list of photographic equipment makers lists companies that manufacture equipment for photography....
  • Fujifilm camera


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