I use my D30 on Super-Fine JPEG mostly, and the 1G Microdrive can hold
about 799 of those.
In article <VA.00001126.01faef11@virgin.net>, brian.rumary@virgin.net
(B.Rumary) wrote:
> In <B69BA4BD.1693%yvesberia@earthlink.net>, Berry Ives wrote:
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> > Digital SLRs that have maybe half the required resolution now cost
> > about
> > $3K.
> >
> > If that technology progresses at anything like what CPUs have, I
> > think 10
> > years is rather ample to eliminate, say, 90% of the 35mm film market.
> > That
> > said, I recently bought a Contax film camera and am about to buy a
> > film
> > scanner. (%~~/> ~~~~~~~~........
> >
> I think we are tending to judge the market by our own standards. I am
> not interested in a digital camera *at the moment* because the
> resolution is not up to my standards for the price that I can afford.
> However for the ordinary member of the public they are already "good
> enough". Remember most people's standards for photos are pretty low, as
> you can see be looking at most "happy snaps" (or home videos). All they
> want is reasonable pictures that are recognizable, and they hardly ever
> have a print made bigger then the 6x4's they get when they have the
> film processed. They don't have 10x12's made and then look at them
> through a lens to see how fine the grain is! And they _never_ use
> slides or black & white; too inconvenient or old fashioned.
>
> I also feel that the memory chips, flash cards or what ever don't hold
> enough high quality shots for the price. When I go on an overseas trip
> I shoot 10-12 35mm films, and this would need several flash cards or
> memory sticks, at a heavy cost. Many photographers take several times
> this number of frames. However the ordinary public don't take that many
> shots. There is a joke in the photo processing business that the
> average punters film has a Christmas tree in the first frame and also
> in the last one - that is one film lasts them all year!
>
> What has this to so with us? Well such people make up 95% of the
> photographic market, and their needs (or what the advertisers tell them
> they need) will drive the industry. Before too long you might find that
> you can't get non-digital supplies, because "there is no demand for
> them". You might still be able to get such stuff as film and photo
> paper from professional suppliers, at "professional prices", but the
> photography stores we use now may have gone out of business. If you
> don't believe me, try to get old-style flash bulbs, glass plates, or
> films other than APS, 35mm and 120.
>
> I hope that it doesn't come to this, but I am rather afraid that we may
> have to go digital eventually, whether we like it or not.
>
> Brian Rumary, England
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