Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator instructions) Your first question is from the line of Peter Lawson from Thomas Weisel Partners. Please proceed.
Peter Lawson – Thomas Weisel Partners
Hi, Rob. I wonder if you could kind of walk through the digital imaging business that seems to be the only business that seemed to have got worse quarter-over-quarter. How far do you think that business can drop? And what are you thinking about Q4 for that business?
Rob Friel
I would say I think the end markets for that business actually seem to be stabilizing a little bit. And we are actually seeing some increased bookings for 2010. The reason why we are seeing a significant drop from Q2 to Q3, and I think we talked about this a little bit, is it really has more to do with the ordering patterns of our customers where they took more product in the first half of the year and less in the back half of the year. So while there was a decrease in the revenue, there actually is a stabilization in the end markets there. And we are actually thinking that now in 2010 -- probably mid-2010, we might see -- might actually start to experience some increases in revenue in that business.
Peter Lawson – Thomas Weisel Partners
Thank you. And then the incremental on R&D spend, what drove that?
Rob Friel
I think it’s just fueling the opportunities we see in some of the attractive areas. So some of it is going into genetic screening, some of it is going into the research area, and obviously some of the analytical sciences area. So it’s pretty broadly spaced across the company, but it’s largely in areas where we see growth opportunities. And the other area I would spike out is, with the acquisition of ALB [ph], we have been increasing our investments in the mass spec area.
Peter Lawson – Thomas Weisel Partners
Okay. Thanks for taking the questions, Rob.
Operator
Your next question is from the line of Quintin Lai from Robert Baird. Please proceed.
Jeff – Robert Baird
Hi, guys. This is actually Jeff [ph] in for Quintin. Last quarter, you guys gave a little bit of a sequential improvement. As you talked from Q1 to Q2, you saw a little bit from January, February, March get a little better and all the way through July. How did you see that coming into now? If you can apply a little color on each end market, as we stand?
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