OK, I haven't exactly done a study on the thing but anyone who buys digital quipment, including cameras, finds out that in a very short time you get a mucher better product for the same price or even lower, can easily be observed by checking out the development of the top end digital cameras, there is now a 12 MB camera available, how long time ago was that there was a 6 MB camera as the top of the pack in SLR (not counting medium format digital cameras which is another MUCH more expensive issue).
As to computers I use top LINUX boxes (doesn't matter what type of computer really) and I'm sure (always the case) that any computer I've bought (plenty) are second generation way too fast for what the gimmick minded consumer would like. My present computer is less than a year old and speed has increased about 50% during this time, i.e. for off-shelf products not for researched stuff. However if one wants to jump the digital bandwagon one has to do it a certain point, just by waiting you will always have something better. The best thing here of course is when digital performance and price reach film cameras. I wouldn't go for it myself - if I woulkd use digital it would be for getting into the digital darkroom and my experiences so far - despite working with digital stuff (elastic waves and earth (our planet) dformation, is not encouraging, the digital pictures simply takes too much of my time and I still need to get my files over to a printer - my nice inkjet is not up to the quality I want. I also want a break from computers at times. Cheers, ROnald Cheers, Ronald > > Improvement of the medium follows roughly computers, i.e., a doubling > of capacity roughly every 18 months or so (take with a grain of > salt). HUH??? Prove it!!!! William Robb
