Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-04 Thread David Mann
On Jan 4, 2005, at 4:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I've made sure I have a way to power all my DSLRs when I can't get batteries for them any more. Kudos to Pentax for the use of a AA-size battery compartment in the *istD, although I'd love to see a proprietary high-capacity LION bat

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3 Is anyone's brother-in-law ever right? Mine has a really annoying ability to be right pretty much all of the time. William Robb

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread Nick Clark
As does the 43WR - AAs or CRV3. Nick -Original Message- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I note also that the bottom-of-the-line Optio (Optio 30, I think?) takes AAs as well. ERNR

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread Peter J. Alling
Does that mean that my horded supply is now worth something, to the people who haven't changed over? Cotty wrote: On 3/1/05, Peter J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: But not locally, which is were most people look. I'm plucking your string, Alling. Betamax disappeared but Betacam (whi

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread ernreed2
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:05:13 -0500 > > From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > > Subject: Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3 > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; > >

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread ernreed2
Quoting Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:09:58 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ERNR > > married to a man who's frequently right. > > If he monitors the PDML, he'll be framing that one! :-) > > > TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ He doesn't monitor the PDML. So I printed it

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread Cotty
On 3/1/05, Peter J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: >But not locally, which is were most people look. I'm plucking your string, Alling. Betamax disappeared but Betacam (which actually uses the same type of cassette as Betamax) is still going strong ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O)

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread Peter J. Alling
But not locally, which is were most people look. Cotty wrote: On 2/1/05, Peter J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: Beta was around for a long time, just more expensive and hard to find after a while... Easy to find! B and H do loads of Beta. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | Peop

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread Bill Owens
We get many customers asking about the Kodak docking printer. When I explain to them that the cost is twice what we charge for prints, they usually decide against it. I agree though, that when the cost of paper and ink is competitive with our kiosk, they will sell like hotcakes. Bill And ther

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread Bill Owens
One thing that nags the back of my mind is battery power, though. Currently, digital cameras are not cheap enough that people will happily replace their camera in 7 years when you can't get the proprietary LION battery that it came with, and I can't see the companies having any reason to sell batt

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread edwin
> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:05:13 -0500 > From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Subject: Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; > format=flowed; > charset="Windows-12

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread Doug Franklin
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:09:58 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ERNR > married to a man who's frequently right. If he monitors the PDML, he'll be framing that one! :-) TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread ernreed2
Quoting Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Is anyone's brother-in-law ever right? > > Well, you're a woman and brothers-in-law are all, by definition, men. So > no, they aren't ever right. :) Oh -- well. Didn't think of it *that* way. (I was thinking of the conte

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread Mark Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is anyone's brother-in-law ever right? Well, you're a woman and brothers-in-law are all, by definition, men. So no, they aren't ever right. :) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread Cotty
On 2/1/05, Peter J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: >Beta was around for a long time, just more expensive and hard to find >after a while... Easy to find! B and H do loads of Beta. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-03 Thread Cotty
On 2/1/05, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: >I remember a convo I had with my then brother-in-law about 25 years ago: > >I said, "Maurice, go VHS. Looks like everyone's going VHS, and not >too many are joining Sony with Beta". > >Maurice said, "C'mon frank, Sony's the biggest home vid

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-02 Thread ernreed2
Quoting frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:59:53 -0500, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Sony > > hasn't signed on but it's typical for them to go it alone as with their > > "memory stick".) > > > I remember a convo I had with my then brother-in-law about 2

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-02 Thread Peter J. Alling
frank theriault wrote: On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:59:53 -0500, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sony hasn't signed on but it's typical for them to go it alone as with their "memory stick".) I remember a convo I had with my then brother-in-law about 25 years ago: I said, "Maurice, go VH

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-02 Thread frank theriault
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:59:53 -0500, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sony > hasn't signed on but it's typical for them to go it alone as with their > "memory stick".) I remember a convo I had with my then brother-in-law about 25 years ago: I said, "Maurice, go VHS. Looks like everyone's

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-02 Thread Mark Roberts
"William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So far, we are down 40% from last year on film processing. >Last year, we were down about 15% from the year before. >This is the all important Christmas rush, which normally is a very >hectic and profitable time. I think that's about what we're seeing.

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2005-01-01 Thread Bill Owens
- Original Message - From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 2:29 AM Subject: Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3 - Original Message - From: "George Sinos" Subject: RE: Film is Dying, Chapter 3 snip. The Wal-Mart

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-31 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "George Sinos" Subject: RE: Film is Dying, Chapter 3 Bill - Does your location accept files submitted via the Wal-Mart web site? If so, is this a growing or significant percentage of your printing? We get stuff from the internet, but our lab is

RE: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-31 Thread George Sinos
Bill - Does your location accept files submitted via the Wal-Mart web site? If so, is this a growing or significant percentage of your printing? There are three places here in town, that offer this service with next day (or even one-hour) pickup. Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and a local family owned

RE: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-30 Thread Butch Black
Yep... Point & shoot DCs are much more popular and affordable now... Andy -Original Message- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 9:18 AM To: Pentax Discuss Subject: Film is Dying, Chapter 3 So far, we are down 40% from last year on film processing.

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-30 Thread Peter J. Alling
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Peter J. Alling wrote: Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: According to the technicians I trust normally for my gear, P&S digitals are very profitable for them too. Plenty of repairs required. I will rush to buy one any minute now. If that's t

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-30 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Peter J. Alling wrote: > Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > > >According to the technicians I trust normally for my gear, P&S > >digitals are very profitable for them too. Plenty of repairs required. > > > >I will rush to buy one any minute now. > > If that's the case I have a near

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-30 Thread Peter J. Alling
If that's the case I have a nearly perfect condition Kodak DC260 camera I can let you have for $100.00. I think I can scrape together the original box with everything it came with, including a set of the original Kodak photo batteries, never opened, with a couple of years left before they expir

RE: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-30 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Andy Chang wrote: > Yep... > Point & shoot DCs are much more popular and affordable now... According to the technicians I trust normally for my gear, P&S digitals are very profitable for them too. Plenty of repairs required. I will rush to buy one any minute now. Kostas

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-30 Thread Bill Owens
And, according to our informal count, we sold 74 digital cameras in December and 8 film cameras. Bill - Original Message - From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax Discuss" Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:17 PM Subject: Film is Dying, Chapter 3 So far, we are down 40%

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-30 Thread Herb Chong
according to a few reports, this year will see the sales of about 186m camera phones and about 68m digital cameras of all other types. Herb... - Original Message - From: "Andy Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:50 AM Subject: RE: Film is

Re: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-30 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 12/29/2004 5:20:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So far, we are down 40% from last year on film processing. Last year, we were down about 15% from the year before. This is the all important Christmas rush, which normally is a very hectic and profitable tim

RE: Film is Dying, Chapter 3

2004-12-29 Thread Andy Chang
Yep... Point & shoot DCs are much more popular and affordable now... Andy -Original Message- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 9:18 AM To: Pentax Discuss Subject: Film is Dying, Chapter 3 So far, we are down 40% from last year on film process