Bradley.... Fun predictions I guess to get some conversation going .... but my current EOS 35 mm SLR film capture devices (or name any SLR) presently use very small memory canisters that can already hold an incredible combination of file sizes and resolutions for about $3 per 36 exposure for negs and $6 for slides. Just for the sake of interest, for scans for 20"x30" prints or smaller, at 305 dpi, made on a labs LED printer on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper without interpolation, my lab makes a 106 MB scan included in the cost of the print. This type of scan equals roughly, 36 exposures X 106 MB for a total of what 3.8 GB's? Can an $5-8,000 10 MP camera beat that? Okay, so you can do all sorts of interpolations with Genuine Fractals or PS Bicubic interpolations up or down with a 10 MP camera, but you can on a roll of film too and do far more as well with film, which gives one more versatiltiy and excellent quality than even a 10 MP EOS body will have for the same price in the near or far future? So does a 10 MP camera with a flash card or micro drive for memory even come close to competing with the economical cost of a present day camera, film and processing? Today, for comparatively very little money, a roll of 36 exposure film holds an incredible variety of file sizes and possible outputs even if you include the cost of scans (which have scans and scanners like digital cameras and memory dropping in price too). As well, my 1V fires these HUGE file sizes per frame at 10 fps down to -30C quite nicely. I read in one post that Canon advise's not to use the D30 near 0'C or something not too cold anyway. Again, compared to film, digital has some real limits. Will those limits narrow? At what cost? You'll have to not process allot of film to recover the costs of a limiting, expensive and probably soon to be obsolete 10MP camera when they'll then come out with the 15 MP EOS. I'm not sure why folks forget that a roll of 36 exposure film is ALREADY one incredibly convenient, small an CHEAP memory medium and that your present and perhaps cheap EOS camera is already a Multi Giga-Pixel camera. Who needs a limiting 10 MP's? But new toys are fun. I'll have to wait for the prices of digital to drop a ton though, before I get mine. But I do like the instant gratification of digital .... I just don't want to pay for it. Alec Pytlowany Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website Portfolio: www.pytlowany.com * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
