In a message dated 11/20/01 4:21:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
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> This doesn't work for me.
> 
> If I shoot 100 rolls of film I end up with a drawer of slideboxes that
> I can pull out at any time and view with a slide viewer or projector. 
> I can lend them to people, scan them, show them at meetings and so on. 
> If I shoot 3600 digital pictures at 4 meg per picture (that's what I
> get from my primefilm scanner) and I wouldn't take a digital camera
> that did less, then I have 14 gig worth of hard drive space tied up.  I
> can only show them to people with computers unless I print them out on
> the printer at a cost of about a dollar for a quarter A4 sheet.  I
> can't easily show them at meetings because we still use slides.  If my
> computer crashes I loose all of them, unless I back them up onto CD
> rom, which if it's scratched can cause a whole image to be corrupted
> whereas a scratch on a slide can be touched up.
> 
> Sorry, I still like film.
> 
> 
> Leon
> 
> 

What Leon said, except I don't do slides, but internegs/transparencies when I 
have to.

Mafud
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