On 25 Jul 2002 at 15:35, Cotty wrote: > IMO Kodak should put great effort into marketing their own brand of > digital media storage, and get them on shelves now. Cheap and cheerful > Compact Flash cards that hold three dozen good-res shots with the words > 'Kodak Electronic Film or whatever plastered all over them, at about the > same cost as film is now. Then Joe P+S can buy them, shoot the kids, drop > them off for printing, get them back with prints, and drop them into a > drawer, just like he would with the (old-style) negs. Why re-use CF > cards? If they're cheap enough, and sold everywhere, they'll sell > millions eventually. If Grandma wants some prints later, he can just take > the CF card back for those, just like he would with negs. No computer, no > fiddling, and the processing houses keep going. Old habits die hard with > most people :-)
A good idea for all intents except that I suspect that you'll find that the cards aren't yet guaranteed non-volatile as long term storage media? Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
