I _like_ it, but that fly is about as big as a turkey buzzard. -Lon
Cotty wrote: > > >I'm spending this week working in a lab that has digital to > >photo paper printing capability. > >What a gong show. > >First, there seems to be no standards in the industry, and we > >are being asked to support 3 different memory card styles, plus > >microdrives, plus floppies and CDs. > > [slight snip] > > >Anyway, the people who make this stuff need to do some more > >market research. Maybe try to make digital photography easy. > >Film users can literally aim and shoot, and expect reasonable > >results, with no knowledge base. > >Digital users seem to need a course in rocket science to get > >pictures. > > If I were in charge at Kodak, I'd settle on a method of digital storage, > whether it be CF card or whatever, I'd re-launch my digital hardware > (cameras and storage cards) in a humongous blitz, calling it Digital > Film, and force it into the family snapshot users' minds. All previous > digital standards are old and defunct! Digital Film is *the* replacement > for that old favourite 'film'. Now you can truly enter the digital age > with an exciting new range of digital cameras from Kodak, and they all > use just one way of keeping those cherished photos: Digital Film. > > Buy a Kodak camera, or any of the following cameras (x, y, z), and use > Kodak Digital Film: an easy solution to all the complexity of taking > digital pictures. Simply drop it into your favourite high street lab and > you'll get back what you've always had in the past - beautiful prints on > Kodak paper, a CD of your photos so Uncle Ernie and Aunti Flo can have > some reprints later, and a freshly wiped Kodak Digital Film ready to take > some more super pictures. Digital memories with Digital Film, only from > Kodak. > > This achieves several things. Importantly, it clarifies the process for > the average family snapper beyond simplicity itself. It's even easier > than film, because you don't need to thread the stuff from the old > outdated cassettes into the camera, you simply pop in the DF card and > away you go. Pics taken, you drop in the DF card to the supermarket > minilab, and for 3.99 you get back 2 or 3 dozen prints, a CD of all the > shots for any later reprints, and your DF card, wiped, ready to go again. > > After it takes off, which it would ( 'Henry - which kinda camera shall we > get, it's all so confusing - look at all these cards and things - oh - > there's this Digital Film thing from Kodak, that sounds really easy...') > then other makers could get in on the act - Fuji Digital Film, Agfa > Digital Film, and so on. Sure they would be either a CF card or a memory > stick or whatever the standard was, but in the public conscioussness, it > would effectively be *the* replacement for film. > > The real fly in the ointment is getting them to standardize the format :-) > > .02 > > Cheers, > > Cotty > > PS- I'll bet that Wychwood's Hobgoblin that Kodak already hold the > trademark on 'Digital Film'...... > > ____________________________________ > Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at > http://www.macads.co.uk/ > ____________________________________ > Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! > http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ > ____________________________________
