On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:49:48AM -0500, John wrote: > On 11/15/2018 04:42, Rick Womer wrote: > > IIRC, in an interview at one of the big shows last spring, a Pentax honcho > > said that a K-3ii successor was their first development priority. > > > > It???s also true, though, that Ricoh (and all the other office equipment > > companies) are having a terrible time as the world abandons paper > > documents. > > > > Rick > > > > Ironic in light of the increasing demand for physical photo-IDs.
I think that rather depends on where you are. I recently had to renew my (British) passport. Not only was I able to submit my photograph as a digital image - the passport itself also contains an encoded form of the image, readable electronically. And apparently at some UK airports I could just walk up with the passport in hand, place it on the desk, and look into a camera. My digital image from the camera would be checked against the biometric data encoded in the pasport, and if everything checked out I would be able to proceed through the gate. I'm sure there would be somebody present to supervise things, but the whole verification process would be done digitally. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
