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

To: sheila rothstein who wrote (51992)	4/6/1998 10:41:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>The digital camera market is going to be huge << Not with the established price points of $499 to well over $1k. The argument that Vapor! will decrease the cost does not hold water. The main point about digital cameras is the fact that one doesn't need to develop film to get them into a computer. However, if you want prints to put in a photo album, you still would need to take the camera ( or flash, or IBM;s mini-hard drive, or Vapor!, or whatever) to a photo lab to get it processed onto photo paper stock. People are not going to blow hundreds of dollars (or more) on a printer dedicated to just printing photos, plain and simple. To expect they will is just being plain silly. Except for a few tech-heads and Iomega investors, the ritual of necessity of taking images to a photo lab for development will not change with Vapor! This is yet another Achilles Heel in an entire Greek Theater full of problems that Vapor! faces. Why buy a digital camera that takes crappier pictures than a 35mm disposable- AND you need to take them BOTH to the lab? This is why the return/refund rate of digital cameras is horrible- crappy pictures, and no more convenience than film cameras offer. It is proposed that Vapor! will lower the camera cost by negating the need for flash or internal memory. This is hogwash. The entire point of Vapor! is that one would be able to take mega-pixel images. As a result, the internal memory will have to be at least 2MB to capture 1 image before it is written to disc. A graphic artist associate of mine insists that he does not call a digital image "near 35mm quality" unless it is at least 15MB big! The price points have not, and will not move down because of Vapor! Instead, the price points will remain the same, and cameras will offer more and more features while older models are discontinued rather than lowering the price. Any Iomaniacs hoping for a change from this will be majorly disappointed.