~-----Original Message----- ~From: EXT Skip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ~Sent: 22. November 2000 0:01 ~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Subject: Re: EOS 36 exp Film 3.8 GB's of file storage or more, so much ~for 10 MP's? (OFF TOPIC) ~ ~ ~Oscar Valdez wrote: ~> ~> The Western Hemisphere is stuck in the Stone Age of anarchic ~cell phone ~> technology, while Europe is zooming into the third millenium ~thanks to ~> mandated standards. ~> ~> Oscar A. Valdez ~> Grupo Didea, El Salvador ~> Tel. (503) 221-1880 ~> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> > * ~ ~Yes, but they are outdated mandated standards. I would rather have ~"anarchy" and progress than mandated stagnation. ~Skip ~-- Actually, European GSM mobile phone technology is not as outdated as the technology used for mobile telephony in America. There are some pockets of coverage in America where an operator has a really new technology, but those pockets are few and far in between. Let me make you an analogy: All camera manufacturers have decided on some sizes of film, APS and 35mm being the most common. What if that wasn't the case. What if only one kind of film was available in New York, and another in LA, and various types of films all over the place. What if you not only had different types of films but the emulsion was so different that different films from different manufacturers could not be developed in the same way. Think of the price of a roll of film, think of the price of developing a roll, and think of the lack of innovation because no manufacturer had an economy of scale. You would have one series of EOS cameras for one part of the USA, another for another part of the USA. And in Europe, all the photography companies were using 35mm films, with an emulsion that could be developed in any drugstore, all manufacturers could innovate and Canon could come out with cameras like the EOS 1v and EOS 3 and EOS 30 for Europe. But in America you would still have the EOS 630 or the 650. Most people would not have moved out from using a Canon AE-1. That actually is the case when it comes to mobile phones. Now what we're doing in Europe with the phone system is similar to all the camera manufacurers getting together to use a single lens mount system. It will be a superfast and electronic system, miles ahead of todays EF lens mount system. So I can use a Nikon on my Canon, or a person with the next generation Nikon camera can use the next generation Canon IS lens on his camera. Thats what the phone system is like, or going to be like in the next 2 years in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia... but not the Americas, not for some time. Cheers, Shashvat * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
