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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (5974)12/3/1997 9:02:00 AM
From: William T. Katz  Read Replies (2) of 9124
 
Digital cameras are gaining in popularity, but for normal general use, a conventional auto-focus camera is cheaper to run all the way around, AND the quality is superior.

Dwight, I think you aren't looking at the future (and the history of tech) enough. Digital cameras will be cheaper and the printing will become visually indistinguishable and probably cheaper than traditional means in the future. The whole development of film costs money that are difficult to reduce whereas electronics has a habit of exponentially increasing in power for less cost. Even if everyone doesn't have their own printer, you can be sure that service centers will become quite popular where you simply download your pictures and have them printed and sent to you for a low cost. The quality issue is already improving dramatically with digital cameras and as the $$ starts flowing in, you will get a vast improvement in resolution as the big companies wrestle with each other for market share.

But as I said before, tech is allowing digital cameras to become minature video cameras at the same time. Right now its being limited due to cost of storage and encoder chips, but with low-power low-cost MPEG-2 encoders on the horizon and massive drops in cost per gb storage, we should be seeing that old paradigm shift in one to two years from static photos to videos.

-Bill
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