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To: GraceZ who wrote (13945)	10/20/2000 9:26:18 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14627

Digitization and lower costs nothwithstanding, I believe the price/cost-conscious Chinese will still continue to use conventional cameras and silver-based films for a long time to come. You see, most of them relish and cherish Kodak moments and Fuji moments and enjoy the speed and convenience of being able to store pictures in albums and retrieve them easily almost anywhere they happen to be. By contrast, digital cameras entail relatively high costs associated with unfamiliar paraphernalia and accoutrements like a TV and a pc and monitor and the inconvenience of using them in certain set locations. Not too long ago, a grandpa was thrilled when his grandson told him he could email him a color picture via a scanner and the internet. But the Grandpa's enthusiasm waned precipitously when he found that it took close to half an hour to download the picture and then some more time to open it on his pc desktop. His grandson also lost interest when he found it took quite a while to email a color picture. Unless emailing and downloading times could be shortened considerably, it is doubtful that very many people will be eagerly using digital cameras anytime soon. So, it is likely that silver-based films are still here to stay for quite a long time yet. Also, don't forget that the resolution of digital camera pictures still leaves much to be desired. By the way, Chinese society is not as advanced as you seem to think it is, and so the widespread use of digital cameras/equipment will not happen as quickly as you think it will. Just one more point............if I may. Though Japan is a relatively advanced country and it has been using high-tech toilets that automatically flush and wipe the user's ass clean, it is still behind the West where sanitation and the use of conventional flush toilets are concerned.