Richard Kenward wrote:
>......this is a particular gripe of mine that too much software is 'foisted' on paying customers that really is not ready for release and it's us who have to pick up the tab for unreliability/non-compatibility/instability or plain won't work costs. Richard Just like car manufacturers and nearer to home - film manufacturers. How many of us remember the trials and tribulations of E2, E3 and even E4 processing or the early Kodak colour negative films? Any colour went; as long as it wasn't black and white!! Even digital cameras suffer from the same syndrome. The difference being; they bring out a new model within a month of the old one being released, because they haven't thought through all the complex uses that we - the professionals actually require in a piece of kit. Or am I being too cynical? Over to you Kodak, Canon and Nikon and any other manufacturer for that matter!! I have just finished off a bottle of Pinotage!! Two hours later and more thoughtful!! Perhaps if we - the universal research and trials team were not around, we might not have reached the digital stage by now. We might just have still been taking photographs on glass plates coated in orthochromatic emulsions!! I have just discovered that the spelling check does not recognise the word 'orthochromatic' - I rest my case !!!!!!!!! Yes, I am a Granddad!!! Regards Norman Childs Mobile: +44(0)7831 519217 Telephone: +44(0)1256 767611 Fax: +44(0)1256 767612 Web site: www.greenshoots.co.uk =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
