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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (35964)	11/16/1997 10:31:00 AM
From: Francis Muir	Respond to of 58324

In any case, artists will come along who will use the strengths and weaknesses of digital to advantage. RR should check out some of the more avant garde foto shows -- there's plenty of room for both analog and digital, and art has a way of imitating technology. As to clik! I don't know, and neither does Iomega. Good business is, inter alia, about taking risks, but KE's track record is quite impressive. FIDO

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (35964)	11/16/1997 10:57:00 AM
From: Jeff Sheeran	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Bill, EK is getting slaughtered because Fuji did their homework. call any professional photogragher and chances are if they are shooting color film, it is Fuji. Fuji has introduced wonderful products and good service, they recently got the accts. for all of the film processing for Wal-Mart and Sams Club. Kodak has some excellent products but has been consistently loosing market share to Fuji. I totally disagree when you state nondigital will be viewed an an antique 10 years from now. Image quality is everything, if I could get the best image quality from a 35mm I'd use it. But here is the reality of the situation. The size of the Negative determines the quality of the print. Would you rather have an 8x10 print made from a negative the size of a postage stamp or the size of a sheet of notebook paper? I know which one you would choose. If you only plan on making 4x5 prints the by all means go spend a thousand dollars on a digital camera. If you want to make and 8x10, stick to film, you'll save a lot of money and be happier with the results. Film and paper will alway be here and there will be a good sized market for it down the road 20 years from now. I have camera's made in 1960 that I use all the time. why? because the image quality is superior. Digital will not change that for a long long time. So untill then I will hapily use my "Antique" camera's for all my critical image capturing needs. Regards, Jeff