Well actually the labs have already dealt with this to a point. You can simply take in your CF Memory card to the lab and they will download and print the pictures from it. However there is of course no negative, although you can get them to put the pics on cd, but of course for a non computer user this seems kind of useless and whether on not you'd get the full resolution copies is questionable from what I've seen of cd's made from film at labs. The quality without doing some prelab editing wouild be an issue, although possibly the quality of the camera's direct output would be good enough for many.
Although I still don't see many older people especially wanting to deal with the complexity of a digital camera. Dave Until the labs can truly make it convenient > to deal with digital--and it will have to be the labs-- I don't see film > dying. Here is a question. If somebody doesn't have a computer, what will he > use as a "negative"? I mean, a print is nice, but most people want the > negatives--at least most people I know, and sometimes they actually _use_ > those negatives. :-) As I see it, far more people use cameras than use > computers. (Although, please correct me if I'm wrong.) :-) But as long as > people want a simple, non-computerized interface for dealing with > photos/snapshots, etc., film will not go away. It may not be the highest > quality, but I believe it will hang around, and even be lucrative for quite > some time. Of course, if the labs did find a way for dealing with the > computer aspect of digital, then I could see film going the way of the > dinosaur very quickly, but without that crucial element, I don't see film > going away...
