I just picked up a Nikon Coolpix 990 from buy.com for 833.00 with shipping,
Came with a 16 mb lexar flash card. I will never buy a roll of film again.
last weekend I went to N.H., came back with 300 pic's, made 5 CDR's and
passed them out to my friends. Total cost $2.75. I also use nikon net,
for the pic's that I want on paper (very few) I wait till I have 20 or
so and upload them for printing. average cost with shipping .60 cents each
Glen, my experience is similar, if not identical to yours.
I have started sending CD's, but find that many people don't
have photo software that is convenient for viewing.
Now I am in the habit of placing photos on my photopoint site
after any major family event. I send the web address to
my folks, my brother in Boston, my sisters in Chicago and
SanFrancisco, and all my in-laws in Europe.
I wish I could say that many people have experiences like yours (ours),
but only 60% of US families have a PC, some percentage of that
use the Internet, some percentage thereof have photo viewing
software and even fewer have CD-R's. It is going to take a while
for digital photography to take off.
I was very uplifted by your experience and the enthusiasm of your post.
I have always believed digital photography to be habit forming,
highly infectious and incurable. You seem to have been bitten.
Now I hope you upgraded to a SanDisk CompactFlash card!
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