Konica Minolta, Fujifilm Eastman Kodak establish EVERPLAY standard

Orlando, February 22 '“ Konica Minolta Photo Imaging Inc., Fuji Photo Film
Co., Ltd. and Eastman Kodak Company, founding members of the former Picture
Archiving and Sharing Standard (PASS), today announced the EVERPLAY standard
designed to ensure compatibility of digital photos and motion images across a
broad range of consumer products for future generations.

Methods to organize and preserve digital images have
evolved independently by many different companies and have lost interoperability
among the different systems. There are also potential problems as time passes,
systems evolve and formats change. The new EVERPLAY standard aims to resolve
these issues and respond to consumers' needs to protect images and enjoy
widespread interoperability. The standard is designed to make it easy to
implement and uses XML next-generation language in its specification.

Konica Minolta, Fujifilm and Kodak will begin a free
license program immediately and call for the adoption of the EVERPLAY standard
by all consumer digital imaging companies. The goal for products and services is
to use images interchangeably and movies ubiquitously while at the same time,
acknowledge the value for protecting consumers' images.

By signing the licensing agreement, which is available on
the Web site, any company can acquire a royalty-free license to execute the
specification, use the trademarks and obtain rights to the patents owned by the
EVERPLAY founders.

Further, the following tools will be provided at no cost:
Software development kit (SDK) v1.10 and Verifying tool v1.10. Details can be
obtained from
http://www.everplay-spec.org.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Group's business domain spans "from imaging input to
output."
The Group offers diverse products and services for new digital
imaging environments in a wide range of fields. Our business domain is broad,
including office equipment, optical devices, medical imaging, graphic imaging
and measuring instruments. Its largest office equipment business sector
consecutively offers advanced network document solutions, taking advantage of
its strengths in high-speed, color and networking technologies. We also actively
develop cutting-edge technologies that will expand the world of imaging,
concentrating on proprietary materials, optical, nano-fabrication and imaging
technologies.
Konica Minolta is committed to exploring unique markets and
creating new business opportunities focusing on digital input/output, as the
possibilities of imaging expand with the progress in digitalization and
networking trends.

More information about Konica Minolta is available at http://konicaminolta.com/.

About Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Group is a leading global provider of imaging, information and
document-related products and services, and a pioneer of a wide range of digital
systems. It had global revenues of Yen2.5 trillion (US$23.6 billion, at the rate
of Yen107=US$1) in the year ended March 31, 2005 and 75,638 employees worldwide.
Its Imaging Solutions segment includes digital cameras, color film as well as
photofinishing equipment/services. Flat panel display materials, medical
imaging, graphic arts and other businesses constitute its Information Solutions
segment, and digital color copiers and other office products/services comprise
the Document Solutions segment. Through development and selective application of
its advanced digital, network, image processing, and other proprietary
technologies, the Fujifilm Group has expanded from its original field of
silver-halide photographic films into diverse new business fields. As a global
company with a reputation for the highest quality and reliability, Fujifilm aims
to make innovative use of the most advanced technologies to create beautiful
images and wide-ranging information, and provide the imaging, information, and
document solutions that will best meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of
the world community. Fujifilm is an environmentally friendly, humane enterprise
and an exemplary global corporate citizen.

More information about Fujifilm is available at http://home.fujifilm.com/.

About Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak is the world's foremost imaging innovator, providing leading products
and services to the photographic, graphic communications and healthcare markets.
With sales of $14.3 billion in 2005, the company is committed to a digitally
oriented growth strategy focused on helping people better use meaningful images
and information in their life and work. Consumers use Kodak's system of digital
and traditional image capture products and services to take, print and share
their pictures anytime, anywhere; Businesses effectively communicate with
customers worldwide using Kodak solutions for prepress, conventional and digital
printing and document imaging; Creative Professionals rely on Kodak technology
to uniquely tell their story through moving or still images; and leading
Healthcare organizations rely on Kodak's innovative products, services and
customized workflow solutions to help improve patient care and maximize
efficiency and information sharing within and across their enterprise.