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To: Cogito who wrote (7537)	2/19/1999 12:56:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

>>I checked into the matter a bit further and discoverd that the Kodak DC260 which is being bundled with Clik! is one of Kodak's newest cameras, featuring a 1.6 megapixel ccd and zoom. The Olympus D400Z is also a new megapixel (1.3) model with zoom.<< It is you who is mistaken. The model replacement time-frame in the Digicam realm is appalling. Obsolscence is measured in months. Indeed, the models in question are their newest, but their 2+ Megapixel replacements have been/are being unveiled at PMA. The retailers are blowing out their old inventory to make room for all of the 2+ Megapixel cameras that will occupy the same price points. The respective manufacturers are discontinuing the older DC260, 400Z, and e1680. (Agfa's just announced CL-50 is replacing the e1680. The CL-50 carries the same 1.3 Mpixel rating at a lower price than the e1680)

To: Cogito who wrote (7537)	2/19/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Respond to of 10072

<<So who's confused?>> Espirit-de-Prick has much enthusiasm for confusion and misinformation. Possibly he's writing from an assylum (really). They must have given their patients access to computers.

To: Cogito who wrote (7537)	2/19/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: N4ZQ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Allen, I am confused. For Christmas 1997, I put a Nikon Coolpix 900 under the tree for my wife and after three days, took it back for a full refund.Among other things, it was power hungry, terribly slow in uploading data to the Mac not to mention less than great resolution. Went to THE photo store in the Boston area this afternoon to try to get re-educated on the general subject.Looked at AGFA, KODAK, OLYMPUS, SONY, RICOH, as well as one or two others. (NIKON entry has been pulled from the market). My conclusion is that the digital photo market is changing so rapidly that it is not possible to make an intelligent buying decision. I went home empty handed. You can buy the latest and greatest today but you are totally blind to what may be coming tomorrow or next week. I suspect that power consumption needs to drop, image resolution needs to rise, storage capacity will need to rise substantially. They try to work around this now with compression and by letting you select a lower image resolution but the result is still a far cry from traditional film. Anyway, I have a collection of four Nikon 35mm SLR cameras from the last 40 years and given the choice of spending another $1000 on a camera, I would buy a real camera, not a digital toy. Of course, my opinion is always subject to change. The camera store I went to does a big business in used equipment and the most telling fact of all I learned today was that digital cameras have zero resale value. Another surprising bit of information was that this store had no knowledge of any Iomega deals to bundle Clik with digital cameras.