Re: new system

[P3D Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxx>]

Mike Kersenbrock sez:

> > >And that Polaroid camera is consumer priced (so that we're comparing apples
> > >with apples, not apples with Ritz crackers)?

Greg Wageman replys:

> > Good point.  The PDC-2000 is available in a couple of different
> > configurations.  For $3,695 you get 40MB of internal storage which
> > holds up to 40 images.  For $2,995, you get no internal storage and
> > you must be SCSI-cabled to your computer (ideal for a studio situation;
> > pretty useless in the field).  For $4,995 you can get a flash ROM
> > drive that holds 60 images (the 40MB version is a mini-harddrive).

To which sid herbage wrote:

> Geez .... until I read this, I hadn't realized I was poor! (:-)

And I say:

Sid, you got that right! If $3-5K is consumer priced at the Kersenbrock and 
Wageman households, then ain't nobody's gonna be able to keep up with the 
Joneses!  8-)

I understand the point that Polaroid pricing is more attractive than the kodak 
digital systems, which many consider to be the benchmark of digital cameras. But 
I would question the notion that they represent "consumer pricing," as this is 
squarely in the realm of Hasselblads, Rolleiflexs, Leicas, etc.

Eric G.


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