You're right Bill, I am going by current costs re digital photography. 15 sheets of photo quality paper costs $10 for the Kodak Digital Science camera. That's just for the paper, and paper isn't electronics, so I'm not sure how much the price will come down. Then there is the ink cartridges, and from people I know who print color, the ink goes fast, and they're $32 a pop, or there about.
That said, I do believe there are many uses for these cameras, such as for real estate agents, for example. They can drive out to a house, take a picture, go back to the office, download the picture, and pop it into a flyer in MS Word or some such. Also my nephew has found a use for it; he takes pictures of family events here and e-mails the pictures to his uncle who is overseas. But for instance, if I go on a vacation, I can't imagine it would be very handy to use a digital camera unless I also had a laptop with me, as a download receptacle. On the highest resolution, these digital cameras can only store like six pictures at a time, then they are full, and you have to download the images. I'm keeping an eye on the $ and practicality issues, and when the mix becomes attractive, I am certainly not against buying one.
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