P3D Re: Digital cameras (was, fall into the GAP-commercial gone?)

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> >  I've got a digital camera coming in the mail (a cheap $174
> >  Fuji DS-7 640x480 model aimed for web home-page use coming
> >  from auction house www.onsale.com).  Maybe I should have ordered two?
> 
> Last month at the PhotoImagining Manufacturers& Distributors Association (PMDA)
> meeting in
> New York City, Panelist Cliff Whitney, VP Digital
> Imaging, Wolf Camera & Video said "The best
> digital camera you have today is the camera you
> already have at home. It's your regular camera,
> but all you need is a scanner."

You know, I even have that one.   But you know what else, it's a pain.

I want a digital image of something or other.  I have our 2D camera with 
a 36-exp roll of print film.  I could take a shot of what I want, and
maybe a few months later when the film is finished (only my stereo cameras
with *slide* film move quicker than this) I can have the prints made (albeit
dirt cheap), then if they turned out how I intended, I can then spend more 
time to scan it (mine has very high optical resolution, but is an older 3-pass
unit).

So in terms of quality and cost, my existing 2D camera and my scanner is
far superior, however, the time of image-wanting to image-having is about
three or four months.  I hope that the digital camera coming will have a MUCH
faster creation time than that.  MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH faster. :-)

Mike K.

p.s. - And if the film version didn't turn out how I'd like, the time delay
       starts all over again......  :-(

p.p.s. -  A polaroid camera + scanner would work nicely for time and quality,
          but the runtime cost per image is a bit high.


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