1.   Executives at Kodak, which leads the consortium, said they expected the new system to rejuvenate the consumer photography market.

2.   Phillips has re-entered the photography market in New York after an absence of about a decade.

3.   The joint venture with Walmart.com is also a way for Hallmark to capitalize on the rapidly growing digital camera segment of the photography market.

4.   The photography market has been booming.

5.   Annual bonuses for top executives at Eastman Kodak Co. fell sharply last year in line with a slowdown in photography markets.

6.   In its new request, Kodak said Japan is the second-largest photography market after the United States.

7.   Beyond the issue of access to the photography market, the United States wants to focus the talks more generally on how the Japanese distribution system operates.

8.   But the traditional photography market has begun to stagnate.

9.   Dealers attributed the weakness to jitters about the US-Japanese trade fight in the consumer photography market.