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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: Pentax Optio Digital Camera - YUH take into account
the sorry shadow detail


> In a message dated 11/12/01 7:09:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,

> ***With digital paper costing an arm and leg, and having to
sometimes print
> three-four-five "tests" to get one "good" print, who says
digital is
> "comparable" in costs to chemical prints? With chemical prints
of course, one
> uses test strips but one 8x10 film sheet will yield seven or
eight strips.

You are in a unique position where you can do your own colour
printing. If a person has to pay 15 bucks or more for a custom
wet print, the digital prints suddenly make a lot of economic
sense.
I can make a good quality photograph on my computer for about
1/4 the cost of having the same print made by a custom lab.

> The worse thing about digital? It utterly fills up your hard
drive with all
> these images you will never use but somehow feel an obligation
to keep. I
> finally went through my HDD(s), purged them of images I would
not need or use
> and gained back 1.6 GIG of space!  Next, I'm setting my Norton
> SystemWorks2001 on the rest of the computer, purging all
duplicate image
> files.

Thats what CD burners were invented for.
William Robb
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