Re: Film SLR's are dead - was: Pentax Folks

2002-09-17 Thread Brad Dobo
. Brad Dobo - Original Message - From: "Bruce Rubenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: RE: Film SLR's are dead - was: Pentax Folks > A couple of times my family has gone rafting, so I bought w

RE: Film SLR's are dead - was: Pentax Folks

2002-09-17 Thread Bruce Rubenstein
A couple of times my family has gone rafting, so I bought water proof disposables. They served their purpose of saving visual memories, which is all that the vast majority of people want from pictures anyway. For the image quality desired of many folks disposable cameras are over kill. I am not th

Re: Film SLR's are dead - was: Pentax Folks

2002-09-17 Thread Bill Owens
From: "Tom Sapienza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 6:57 PM Subject: Re: Film SLR's are dead - was: Pentax Folks > I think it pretty much gets recycled right away. At least, the impression > I've been unde

Re: Film SLR's are dead - was: Pentax Folks

2002-09-17 Thread Tom Sapienza
> You can get 'em all sorts of ways 35mm or APS format, color at least 400 > to 800 speed, with flash or without, waterproof or panoramic or plain, > and B&W, too. Prices seem to range from $2-3 up to $13 U.S. My son was > carrying around a $3 Fuji 27 exposure 400 speed with flash Sat, Sun, and >

Re: Film SLR's are dead - was: Pentax Folks

2002-09-17 Thread Dan Scott
You can get 'em all sorts of ways 35mm or APS format, color at least 400 to 800 speed, with flash or without, waterproof or panoramic or plain, and B&W, too. Prices seem to range from $2-3 up to $13 U.S. My son was carrying around a $3 Fuji 27 exposure 400 speed with flash Sat, Sun, and Monday

Re: Film SLR's are dead - was: Pentax Folks

2002-09-17 Thread Steve Desjardins
Actually, I think that disposable cameras are one of the things that is going to keep 35mm alive for quite a while. It's hard to come up with a digitial equivalent that will have anywhere near as much profit margin. Funny how we've come full circle. This is similar to how the first Brownies wer