In a message dated 2/13/01 5:44:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< You're absolutely right. Lets remember one more thing; the market will go
more and more digital. >>
Apparently digital will continue to grow. But too may people who have bought
and used digital cameras report an astronomical cost factor (batteries,
chargers, memory cards*), unreliability away from good electrical supplies,
loss of power at unexpected moments, loss of images inside the camera, faulty
downloads and the beat goes on.
*Not having to buy film is not a plus when digital owners spend more time and
money every weekend on memory and batteries than most any film shooter might
in three months.
For this discussion I will not factor in the failure of most digital owners
to calibrate their monitors to their cameras and so, their downloads don't
match the images in the camera, nor do the images in their computers match
the images they print out on their $79 LEXMARK Z-12s.
As digital sales rose on word of mouth, they have flattened out for the same
reason; too many reports of trouble and time wasted for the multiple hundreds
of dollars invested. When the "fun" of digital runs out, and it does rather
quickly for adults**, the sale of digital cameras will falter then plummet***.
**Youngsters use digitals at sleep overs, parties and the like, downloading
them to computers then shooting all over again. What teens have not done is
felt a need to save the images they shoot.
***Digital owners are now carrying one-use and cheap 35mm cameras "just in
case" their digital goes kaput, as they are wont to do.
I'd hold up any fast prognostications about digital overcoming film, now or
in the near future. First they'll have to get better, cheaper and more
reliable.
Mafud
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