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To: Apollo who wrote (22101)	4/3/2000 9:14:00 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

re. digital camera tornado For anyone interested in digital photography, I recommend spending a little time at the newsgroup rec.photo.digital. GGers will probably detect a distinct breeze. <gg> For me the real attraction is the "digital darkroom" offered by PhotoShop. The > 2Megapixel cameras, while still woefully lacking in resolution compared with 35mm film, allow access to the pixels in an unparalleled way. lurking... lurqer

To: Apollo who wrote (22101)	4/3/2000 9:15:00 AM
From: Stu R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

My Peter Lynch experience with digital cameras is negative. As a result of recently researching the purchase of a new camera I decided not to purchase a digital camera but instead purchased a 35mm Advantix system camera. Not only was photo quality a concern but arhiciving was a major consideration. So I can still easily download my photos to the computer but end up with better photo quality and also don't have to worry about storage of my photos. In addition I can easily make reprints which is not the case with digital. The store owner I dealt with indicated that more than 30% of the digital cameras he sells for non-business use gets returned. On the other hand he cannot keep up with the demand for the Advantix cameras. He believes the public is being sold a bill of goods. Time will tell. Stu

To: Apollo who wrote (22101)	4/3/2000 9:54:00 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Stan, It won't surprise you to learn that I also don't own a digital camera. :) Seriously, I think it's interesting that in my question about empirical evidence of a tornado in digital cameras I've only recieved one snippet of empirical evidence in response, the stuff about the massive estimated growth. I realize that I travel in a different world than you do insofar as early adopters and pragmatists are concerned,:) but my own anecdotal evidence is that darned few people own digital cameras though it's becoming more and more difficult to notice the differnce between film and digital cameras. I read several photography magazines every month and based on the info in them I would be surprised to learn that as many digital cameras will be sold next year as film-based cameras. I'm not saying it's not reasonably possible. One source of confusion is the issue of uploads to digital sites for web storage and e-mail. Most of those uploads are from scans of photos taken on film-based cameras. I'm not ignoring that the proliferation of the ability to load photos directly from a camera into a computer and up to a website doesn't help promote use of digital cameras, but the fact that those capabilities are firmly in place doesn't necessarily mean the tornado is already in progress. The folks who believe the digital camera tornado is in progress might be right. I'd just like to see one fact of empirical evidence showing past growth and I've yet to see it. Always being Merlin, for better or worse. :) --Mike Buckley