新年尹始,以佳能公司为首的20家公司挑起了数字静止图像的标准之争。这20家公司组织了一个称为 CIFF(照相机图像文件格式)论坛的组织,采用新的方法存储和管理照相机里的数字化图像,与富士公司及柯达公司所使用的现行标准不兼容。这20家公司中包括美能达、尼康和欧林巴斯等,它们将在美国举行的消费电子展览之前聚齐。他们于1997年夏天推出的新格式规定了 At the beginning of the new year, 20 companies, led by Canon, raised the standard dispute over digital still images. The 20 companies organized an organization called the CIFF (Camera Image File Format) forum to adopt a new approach to storing and managing digitized images in cameras that are incompatible with the current standards used by Fuji and Kodak. The 20 companies include Minolta, Nikon and Olympus, which will be gathered before the Consumer Electronics Show in the United States. The new format they introduced in the summer of 1997 provided for