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12 INTERVIEW: FALCON, PART 1
Past, Present,
Future :
Falcon talks technology’s impact on where
his firm started and where it’s going...
Francois: Over the years there have been well. The improvement in camera technolo-
many changes in the industry and to The gy means that you can now get a Digital Reb-
House of NyghtFalcon. Can you speak about el for less than half the price we paid for our
those you feel were most significant? old Canon 10D, and you’ll have a better sensor
Falcon: That’s a much harder question than and more megapixels.
it might seem. Francois: Did you anticipate the impact of
Francois: Why is that? these advances?
Falcon: So many changes have occurred Falcon: We knew back in the fall of 2002
overall that narrowing things down is rather that not only would digital cameras replace
like trying to catch a leaf in a windstorm. Just film, but that the rise of digital cameras would
look at the advances in technology for a mo- likely cause a shift in the market. We’ve seen
ment. My first camera—purchased just over two major market shifts in the past: first in
ten years ago—was an Olympus 4 megapixel. the 1950s when Kodak released their very
The Canon 1Ds Mark III I currently use is a inexpensive film cameras, and again about a
22 megapixel. Nikon offers a 30+ megapixel decade later when Kodak brought film pro-
DSLR. But it isn’t just the megapixels, sen- cessing labs into retail stores and pharmacies.
sor technology has changed immensely as In both cases, the impact on the industry was
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