Re: Digi-film camera

Jack Offstermeyer wrote:
> My elderly mother always loved film for taking picture of the grandkids 
> and stuff and never could comprehend digital.  Lord knows I tried to 
> convince her to go digital so she could share the pictures online, but 
> she was content mailing us all prints.
> 
> Last month she went to a new camera shop and they convinced her to get 
> one of the new digi-film cameras.  I hadn't heard of them but boy, they 
> are great.  They give her the best of both film and digital.
> 
Be sure to check it is in fact using digi-film - some shops are passing 
off analogue film as digital. The digi-film can be identified by its 
black or white pixels; analogue type film has the whole grey scale...

> She snaps away to her hearts content, then takes the camera to the shop.

>  They downloads the imaged from the camera to their proprietary computer

> and put them on a CD.  At the same time, they burn negatives for her so 
> that they can make prints for her.  She loves leaving the store with 
> negatives in hand -- even if they are digitally produced negatives.
> 
> The camera was a bit pricey but it seems to be worth it.  Last week she 
> paid them to upgrade it with more memory.  Now it'll go up to 36 
> high-quality images before she needs to take it to the shop.
> 
Hmm... sounds like that old analogue film to me...    ;-)
> I hope this technology catches on and they expand it to other cameras 
> soon.  Maybe then the price of the cameras will start to come down.