I have to comment on this. I have a digital camera, a
Kodak DC260, 1.5 megapixal, state of the art as of two
years ago cost me more than my both my MX's and winder
and a couple of lenses. Hopelessly outdated less than
3 months, (and no longer supported by Kodak by the
way), after I bought it. My 35mm SLR's image capture
capabilities are updated every time film is improved.
Maybe when the "NEW" Pentax Digital SLR is released
with it's 6 megapixal CCD I'll think differently but I
doubt it.
--- Sid Barras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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