Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:05:13 -0500 > > From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3 > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > format=flowed; > > charset="Windows-1252"; > > reply-type=response > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > And, according to our informal count, we sold 74 digital cameras in > December > > and 8 film cameras. > > > > Bill > > Everyone's GOT a film camera already, and the used market is flooded with > them. There's little to push people to buy a BETTER film camera now that > digital is looking affordable. > > One thing that nags the back of my mind is battery power, though. > Currently, digital cameras are not cheap enough that people will happily > replace their camera in 7 years when you can't get the proprietary LION > battery that it came with, and I can't see the companies having any reason > to sell batteries for older cameras instead of selling newer cameras. > You can get batteries for most older film cameras (they only took a > couple of kinds), even the oddballs like the spotmatic, and of course most > real > cameras don't need batteries anyway. > > Personally, I've made sure I have a way to power all my DSLRs when I > can't get batteries for them any more. Kudos to Pentax for the use > of a AA-size battery compartment in the *istD, although I'd love to see a > proprietary high-capacity LION battery that fits where the batteries go.
Kudos to Pentax indeed. Also, to Olympus -- the bottom-of-the-line P&S we gave my mother for Christmas a couple of years ago also uses AA batteries (rechargeables accepted, and with a pretty long life per charge.) I note also that the bottom-of-the-line Optio (Optio 30, I think?) takes AAs as well. ERNR
