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To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (2869)2/18/1999 7:40:00 PM
From: Kirk ©  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 4722
 
Digital cameras need an easy interface to the PC and printers to get photos easily. I was working on IR links for these before I got a downsize ticket and we shipped the R&D off to Singapore as a swap for lower tax rate. Easy interface pretty much means old Softe has to build this into Windows and Windows CE. Most people would rather pay $6 to a drug store for double prints of a 24 exposure roll of film rather than fuss for hours with a thousand bucks worth of PC equipment to get a photo on a piece of paper that cost a buck and looks "almost as good" the the cheap drugstore photo.

Anyway, photos will mainly help sell ink which is good.

Now, this site will make digital cameras more popular. photoloft.com
I scanned some drug store photos into my PC with my HP OfficeJetPro and uploaded and then my family and friends can see them. When cameras can talk easily to a PC, then they can upload directly from the camera onto this site just like the camera was another hard drive.

regards
Kirk out



To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (2869)2/19/1999 4:39:00 PM
From: Fred Levine  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 4722
 
Michael-- I know that HP did an abortive attempt at marketing the digital camera, but an all-out effort, according to Merrill Lynch, was planned sometimes in '99. Their first cameras were not especially well-reviewed but they offered the hope of an integrated system with the printer.

I no longer hear about the all-out effort, and I see virtually no product effort now.

fred


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