I see your point. I do believe, that the SLR market is very limited. Not to mention the DSLR market. Very few people, I know (photo club members exempted - and that may be about 0,05 % of the intire population), would want a DSLR. It's just too bulky. Most people want a camera to sit in the pocket, while they are doing other things.
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 12. juli 2004 02:30 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: Film Is Dead / A Contrary View On 12 Jul 2004 at 1:30, Jens Bladt wrote: > I would very much like to know this number of days, please :-) It maybe sooner than you think. > I still see cameras for film in use every day at the Copenhagen jazz > festival (of course these are used by serious photographers - diggies are > used by snap-shooters and pros). I guess students, family providers etc. > don't ALL see the need to spend 1 weeks - 1 months salery on getting a > digital camera (and perhaps a new XX-GB computer, CF cards, portable > harddrives, wide angle lenses etc). Still 2000 USD will buy you a lot of new > shoes, meals, gasoline, concert tickets, days at the Mediterranean Sea etc., > right? Kodak are gearing down here, there are jobs on the blacks and they are trying to change their image from being a film company to an imaging company. Here AU$600-1000 digicams feature regularly on prime time adverts, maybe it's a function of the countries current growth but obviously the marketeers and advertisers think they are going to sell. I rarely see film cameras in the hands of the masses on the street or at social events here and few tourists seem to be wielding film cameras these days either. It's now to the point here that you really don't need a computer to successfully shoot with a digital camera even though computer ownership here is one of the highest in the world per capita. There are digital labs everywhere, even out in small country towns The number of 300Ds being sold here is staggering, it seems that the SLR market is opening up again, not to Pentax mind you. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
