My brother when hiking across Europe last summer with a bunch of his
buddies.  He took 3 disposables with 800 speed film.  The results were
excellent.  I tried to sway him to at least take my PZ-10 and a cheap lens,
but he well *dislikes* photography.  Amazing that he composed some of the
shots.

Brad Dobo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Rubenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:08 PM
Subject: RE: Film SLR's are dead - was: Pentax Folks


> A couple of times my family has gone rafting, so I bought water proof
> disposables. They served their purpose of saving visual memories, which is
> all that the vast majority of people want from pictures anyway. For the
> image quality desired of many folks disposable cameras are over kill. I am
> not the least bit surprised that many people are quite happy with the
images
> of 1-2mp digital cameras.
> Most disposable cameras come loaded with 800 speed print film.
>
> From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have never bought a disposable camera!
>
> I can certainly see a market for them, I just couldn't see it being this
> big. As Steve Desjardins wrote, maybe this market will add to film
> availability for the longer term.
>
> Can you get different film availability in such cameras? I have always
> assumed they were available with colour print film only.
>
>

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