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To: hank2010 who wrote (1629)	12/5/2000 3:00:56 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4409

I have a little direct experience with this in a rural village in southern México, fotos there used to be a big deal and costly, you had to go to or call in a professional who charged a lot even by Can/US standards ... now there are more casual fotos taken with disposable cameras and those cheap ones ... to my knowledge there has never been a computer in the village, we've been trying for a long time to get a net connection into the local school, no luck ... maybe three thousand people right there within a five km radius, a culture strongly emphasising family, which leads to fotos of the generations in various stages and activities, and they won't be digital for decades, if ever. My buddy runs a cantina in a market town of 100k people about fourty minutes away, he's middle class, well off, about to get his first computer after hearing me preach the net and email etc [he's our conduit of communication and Telmex robs us blind] ... his wife has quality german or japanese cameras, we've discussed it and she has no interest in the digital medium ... people just like the physical foto imho, it's quality, compact, durable, portable, independent of electrical power, etc ... even if it doesn't stay far cheaper for many years, which i think it will, when you consider the infrastructure necessary for widespread digital. In that town there are many foto shops, not just for the tourists, and they look increasingly healthy to me ... you look at a family's collection, you'll see one foto for each year of the 40s [if that], three or four for each year of the 60s, thirty or fourty from 1996 ... not a trend to end soon, imho.