In a message dated 1/21/2003 2:24:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> From the POV of a long time photographer, I dispute your calling digital > media less destructable than film. The things that will ruin film will also > ruin digital media. Digital media can also be ruined by background > radiation, strong magnetic signals, age degradation of the imbedded signal, > and I am sure a myriad of other maladies. Okay. You know a lot more, a lot more, about that than I do. > The LCD, in my own opinion is a red herring of sorts. The image is too > small, and too low resolution for anything other than a gross evaluation of > composition. Enough for a lot of us, however, to be very attracted to it. > William Robb But is there any reason that down the road, in a few years when things have settled down a bit, that more and more people might buy digital cameras *without* owning a computer? Or without being highly computer literate if they have one? And having their prints developed at a lab, the same as before? (Skipping over the reasons of why they might want to buy a digital camera, which might also include availability and marketing, rather than just features and personal preference.) Huh? Doe aka Marnie ;-)
