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To: marcos who wrote (1630)	12/5/2000 3:39:21 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4409

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. I know a little about infrastructure since I've run a photography lab for 25 years. Sometimes I lose whole days fixing the infrastructure. A mini-lab costs between $10k and $90K. Requires plumbing, electricity and waste treatment and about 90-100 square feet. Most machines have a useful life of ten-fifteen years if you are very lucky. Of course I started my business with a $100 enlarger and a set of trays. It can still be done that way. You can make digital prints from a digital camera that you can hold in your hand and are indistinguishable from the little 3r prints you get at Photomat without a computer.....directly to the printer. Camera cost between $200-$800....the printer costs about $300. You want to get fancy you can get a $1000 computer and $1000 printer and you have yourself a nice little business that even the third world can afford the prints from. If you were thinking of opening a little photo biz which option would you look at? You make the mistake that everyone makes, first, you think that digital means you can't make something to hold in your hands and put in a frame. I can show you digital prints that you can not tell are not photographic unless you use a loop. The second mistake is that you think you need a computer to look at and print the images, you don't. Even the lab never has to open your images to print them. Most people won't print high quality images from their digital "film" anymore than they did with film cameras they will take it to a lab. But what a digital camera offers is "film" that is reusable for years and years.....with no film development cost and instant confirmation that you got the picture you wanted. Its like Polaroid without the mess and expense.