In a message dated 1/20/2003 1:14:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> This was about photography as global phenomenon. I doubt digital photography will be >a globel phenomenon anytime soon like film photography. It will follow the >distribution of personal computers which only a tiny percentage of the world > population can afford. > > Pål True only a fraction can afford computers. A smaller percent of that fraction is highly computer literate. Look, I am a real camera novice, but not a complete novice when it comes to technology. I just bought a dvd player, held out as long as I could, but my video rental store is now 1/2 dvds. I didn't want to wait until they were 3/4's dvds. BTW - dvds are a industry-wide standard. I don't need to write dvds, I just watch rented dvds. So I think you are overlooking something. That LCD window. Very attractive to the photographer. So what's to say that someone couldn't buy a digital camera, P&S or DSLR, *without* having a computer? Just for the less destructable storage medium and for that really helpful LCD window? And have their prints made at a lab that is set-up to do so? I think that will happen. Maybe more than one would think right now. Probably a lot more. Doe aka Marnie Oh, well, don't know that much about it, so bowing out of discussion now.
