Hi all,
Well, I didn't buy it though. A very dear friend and mentor, my
surrogate Father, bought it, didn't like the way it handled as compared
to his former Kodak digital. So he went and bought an upgraded Kodak,
and stuck this Olympus D-360L on the shelf, and then, on a whim, gave it
to me when I went visiting him while I was in Houston for the Marathon
this past week ago.
It's got 1.3 megageewhizzezz. And these cute little floppy disks you can
feed directly to the computer through a little drive. (Or you can hook
it to the computer through the serial port, and download directly)
I'm actually quite impressed with the dang thing. At the highest
setting, you get a pretty decent printout on my Epson 2000 at 5 x 7. And
the screen shots look great!
I'm convinced completely. The point and shoot industry will be
completely digital soon. Except maybe for those disposable cameras, I
can't think of anything in the "snapshot" field people will need a film
based camera for. Other than time for all those hard headed people who
don't like to do things differently than what they're accustomed to to
die off....
How far off can the SLR / serious photography be from suffering the same fate?
it's inevitable, I think, as I gaze at my 2500+ LP record collection,
which will one day mean absolutely nothing to the heirs of mine who
eventually get them and wind up throwing them away....
Feeling a bit melancholy....
Sid
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