Re: Digi-film camera

"Bigguy" <bigguy36@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> 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.


ROFL

So few checked the date.

Ho got mosta you

-- 
Peter