Re: new system

[P3D Peter Davis <pfd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Please do not construe my comment as in any way being an endorsement of
> the APS 
> > insanity which the photo/film makers of the world are attempting to foist
> upon 
> > us. How anyone could conceivably consider paying a premium for films
> and/or 
> > processing/and or cameras which utilize a significantly *smaller*
> negative is 
> > not something which I can reasonably understand. All of the technology
> which is 
> > ulitized in APS could just as easily have been applied to standard 35 mm
> (sans 
> > autoloading cartridges) with SUPERIOR results, but NOOOOO, we have to add
> yet 
> > another film format to the anuls of photographic marketing madness so
> that you 
> > can run out this Christmas and buy yet ANOTHER camera to add to that
> closet full 
> > that you already have!! :-[
> > (I think I need to readjust my medication for pre-Christmas
> conditions...)
> > 
> > Eric G.
> > 
> 
> Thank you for speaking out about APS insanity.  It is quite painful
> to see a multi-million dollar marketing campaign promoting a new
> film system that is just made to benefit camera and film manufacturers
> (need something new to sell that is way overpriced) and film processors
> (to cut down on labor costs and sell new autolabs) when some of that
> money could have been used to promote a 3D system. I was
> just going to go on about a dumb cropping system, and lack of film
> selection, and why hasn't autoloading or a smarter camera-back opening
> system been developed for a standard 35mm cassette, but that has
> already been done. Anywho, 3D isn't bad the way it is, without the masses.
> 
> Let them eat APS!!!!!!!!!
> 

The really annoying thing about APS is that is has obsolesence written
all over it.  Consumer grade digital cameras at consumer level prices
will be available in the next year, and the quality will steadily
improve as the price drops, as with other digital technologies.  APS
meets no need whatsoever, and will quickly be supplanted by
all-digital cameras, etc.

-pd


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