Re: new system

[P3D Gregory J. Wageman <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Davis comments:

>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.

Yup.  Kodak is continuing the long-standing tradition that includes the
likes of the Instamatic cartridge, the Disc camera, and the 110 cartridge.
In every case, photographic quality was sacrificed for consumer-oriented
features like ease of loading/unloading etc.  APS has a few more bells
and whistles, but it is essentially a dead-end.

By the way, on the digital front, Polaroid is bucking the trend with a
digital camera that does 1600x1200 resolution (unlike most of the consumer-
grade cameras which are 640x480).

        -Greg W.


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