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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: eric larson who wrote (1643)	7/14/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 5023

Eric and all, digicams lack battery power.... DIGITAL STILL CAMERAS make you understand what it feels like to live in a world of scarcity. You always seem to be running short of battery power. You never have quite enough memory or pixels. Call it the culture of digital underabundance [snip] These new digicams are a fierce drain on batteries. Merely fill up a card and upload the images from the Nikon to your computer, and the battery indicator begins to complain; ...and storage is expensive Of course, the cards are easy to erase, and bigger ones are available--up to 96 megabytes for the Nikon's Compact Flash and 32 megs for the Olympus SmartMedia. But they cost upwards of $2 per megabyte (or, roughly, picture). If you take a long vacation, you will want to bring lots of cards, and/or a notebook computer to which you upload images often. Or that old-fashioned analog option: a camera with good old film. forbes.com This according to Stephen Manes in Forbes. Stephen has credibility and calls it as he sees it. Gottfried