Norm noted:
> Most Americans seem to have lost the feel for quality, p&s
> cameras fit their needs. That's why film processors
> generally produce mediocre results at best, and often
> produce results that are rivaled by low resolution
> digital cameras. Most American consumers don't know
> better and don't care. Often they don't realize they
> can do better.
I agree, but I wonder if your comment is too narrow a
generalization. Do you not feel the Europeans, Latinos, and
our brothers and sisters in the East have also succumbed to
the p&s mentality? We here in the states can't be the only
ones buying mediocre gear and accepting mediocre results.
That said, did that many people care about quality before,
apart from serious amateur and professional photographers, or
were they just looking for snapshot quality pics of family,
friends, and places they'd visited? And look at how many
people on this list are buying and using mediocre quality
lenses and getting average quality printing done at average
quality labs. How many times have we read the word
"acceptable" on this list to describe the results or the
quality obtained by various lenses or printing. Far more than
we've read the words "outstanding" or "exceptional".
No, I believe that "most people", in the e.e.cummings sense of
the word, don't care that much to go to the extra expense,
time, or spend the extra energy, to move up aa degree or two
in quality. Quality always costs, and most people have other
priorities.
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Shel Belinkoff
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