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To: Paul Senior who wrote (8313)	12/5/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Paul, I took away my Mom's color (Polaroid) camera about two years ago and she has a conventional 35mm point-and-shoot which does just fine. I priced a 10 pack of color "600 Platinum" Polaroid film today and it was $14.99 which adds up to $1.49 per photo with the instant satisfaction (and no negative) factored into the price. I would consider getting them a digital camera, but they also fall into the "less than 300 shots" per year category. It is a shame because it would make Christmas shopping a bit easier. I saw these deals in a circular with the Sunday paper today... Office Depot Kodak DC 215 digital camera with a coupon for a free 16 MB SanDisk CompactFlash Card.........$349.99 BestBuy HP C200 digital camera bundled with a free SanDisk 16MB CompactFlash card........$299.99 Olympus C-2000Z with a free SanDisk 16MB SmartMedia card..........$799.99 I did purchase a Canon Powershot A50 for my sister and it cost around $350 with shipping and handling from a place called PCWonders (http://www.pcwonders.com). pcwonders.com No only if it gets here on time!!!!!! Ausdauer

To: Paul Senior who wrote (8313)	12/5/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: Bargain Hunter	Respond to of 60323

I haven't studied PRD in any depth, but I would assume that they suffer from the same inherent problem as Kodak. Their existing revenue base is under threat from digital cameras in a way that makes it hard to understand how they can maintain anything close to today's revenues, let alone make a profit commensurate with their stock price. Yes, they might sell a lot of cameras if they keep the prices down, but how can they hope to replace the revenues and profits from film? Of course there will be other revenue sources than cameras (memory cards, printers, special paper etc) but all of those are likely to be very competitive too. It is analogous to the situation faced by Wang when PCs started replacing stand-alone word processors.