> > From: Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/04/15 Fri AM 07:40:13 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re: Hurrah for Shel Disrobing the Emperor > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Paul, it's about economics, not quality. > > > > Even more so in the consumer market, because you don't ever need to > > have a picture printed again. Many, many people are happy with > > viewing their pictures on the camera LCD. Add the ones who look at > > them on a computer monitor and you have the great majority of the > > modern camera buying public. The economic repercussions of this in > > the photographic marketplace have only just begun. > > > > Dunno Mike, > I think if you drop the print from the consumer equation, you're > basically into the realm of home video where stills will loose against > moving pictures any day. I think that most of the consumers still > shoot stills with a print in mind.
In mind, maybe. But when it gets to going to the shop with the card (do you have more than one?) and talking to the man about all that technical crap and then the prints come back and they don't look like you remember and Auntie's head is cut off..... Unlike chemical photography, there is an alternative. You can show people your pictures on a screen. Doesn't have to be a computer - for �30 you can buy a device that shows them on your TV. My father in law is one of the few people I know (locally...) with a digital camera who prints. He takes 1~2Mb files, prints them at A4 with a 7 or 8 year old HP, using the normal colour cart and shows them to me to demonstrate how good they are. Sometimes he has to tell me what the subject is. An extreme example but I suspect that most people just would not bother. Instant gratification is, in part, what digital is about and the most instant way to see you prints is on screen. Printing them is just too much effort for most (or, at least, many) people. mike ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
