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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (32249)	9/24/2000 10:48:38 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

I may (or not) be a typical digital camera user : - I use a Nikon Coolpix 900, with compactflash cards. - I take a pic - in most cases its not a "fast moving image that can not be re captured". if I'm not happy with it, I immediately delete it& re-take the pic (till I'm happy). -Apart from cameras, I also use my CF cards as storage media to carry my presentations when I'm visiting customers/prospects : all of them have laptops, all I need is my card with a PCMCIA adaptor, and I dont need to lug my laptop- I use theirs, with my card. cheers, kumar

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (32249)	9/24/2000 11:05:00 PM
From: mauser96	Respond to of 54805

Mike, I guess it's Economics 101 that people will use less of something if it costs more, but storage (at least in the hard disk on a computer) continues to get cheaper very rapidly. Apparently we can expect to see close to 100 MB hard disks on average computers within the same time frame as 10 MP cameras, and there's always the "burn to a cheap CD route" for archival storage. It's the cost of the temporary storage between shooting and permanent storage that concerns me. I'm a big believer in the theory that in technology cheap supply creates it's own demand, and Compact Flash isn't cheap. I just bought my first digital camera ( a Canon S10) more as an experiment than anything else, because I already have a good slide- photo-negative scanner. Still trying to get accustomed to it.

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (32249)	9/25/2000 5:30:10 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

how the typical user will use their digital camera. What I am doing, is shooting an event, (dance weekend, party) and downloading it for evaluation to Microsoft "Picture It" where I fix anything needed, (usually exposure correction, eliminate bad pictures, and turning vertical pictures a 1/4 turn). I then save them back to the mag card, and then upload from the card to my Yahoo site. Yahoo has got software now so that I can upload 12 at a time. I have learned how to fool their software so that I can have 35 pictures in an album. I then check and title the pictures, and then erase the mag card. If I want to print a picture, I simply reverse the process. I have a 32mg and a 16mg card available, which gives me enough pictures to shoot a weekend.