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To: LindyBill who wrote (28755)	7/25/2000 12:59:34 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

One of the key points I am trying to make here is that the primary thrust of the digital tornado is not in displacing film, but in new applications -- not "new" in the sense that one couldn't possibly have used film, but "new" in the sense of taking advantages of special features of digital. If one wants a picture right now and plans to web publish or e-mail it, digital is obviously way ahead of having to process the role and scan the image. And, clearly a lot of reasonably well-to-do techno-buffs are going to want them as the latest toy, even if their actual usage would be well-served by film. But, when we make comparisons like "as good as" and define our frame of comparison as snapshot size prints, we aren't comparing to people who have spent hundreds of dollars on their cameras, but to people who bought throwaways in the gift shop or drugstore, i.e., still a huge price differential with reasonable quality digital. Digital cameras can have a huge tornado long before they threaten the bastions of film.

To: LindyBill who wrote (28755)	7/25/2000 2:37:23 PM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Lindy Bill, I agree that accessibility is a key advantage of digital. I have hundreds of photos around. Some of these are in the form of slides that require setting up a projector and all the associated trouble, some are prints in boxes, some in albums,etc. There's no convenient way to view, edit, or arrange them, and more important no easy way to share them with other family members or archive them for future generations. Eventually, I will scan them, burn them into CD's, and post some on a www site open to all family members. Once I do this I don't care what happens to the original film, and I have arranged something that will last after I'm gone. This whole process will get easier as vendors see a mass market forming. Today's somewhat difficult technology becomes tomorrow's routine standard.