Re: Digital Cameras

["Rafe B." <rafeb@channel1.com>]

At 10:03 PM 7/6/99 -0700, Michael Greer wrote:

>Why? As in why is it necessary to take a computer? Surely a few 128 MB
Compact
>Flash cards or a high capacity device like the 340 MB IBM Microdrive will do.
>And why would a backup digital camera be necessary? Because of the relatively
>high digital camera costs, use a film camera as the back up.


How much does one of those 128 MB cards go for, pray tell?
I'm not really up on prices and availability... but I had
the impression that 64 MB was cutting edge, and not cheap.

In any case, consider that a *single* film-scan image from
an LS-30 or SprintScan Plus is 27 Mbytes...  So you're talking
LOTS of expensive memory cards, heavy compression, or both.
The bride & groom may not care about the cost of your memory
cards, but they probably will JPG artifacts playing on the 
bride's lovely smile.


>>     2) process and proof of 220 film is a lot cheaper (and faster) than
>> making digital prints
>
>But why make proof prints at all? With a digital shoot, you can do away
with the
>paper proofs. [Throw] 'em on the web and let the B&G few them there and
select
>what they want.


Mmmm.  At 56 Kbits/second?  How many pictures?  How many
Kbytes per picture?  It's a creative approach, I have to
admit.  You'd probably want some password-protection in
there, while you're at it.  B&G may not want to share their
day with the world at large.

Mike, I'm almost surprised to hear you evangelizing for
the Digital Cause.  I dunno.  Hi-tech is a mixed bag,
IMHO, and that's fine by me.  I can "climb the learning
curve" without buying today's hottest digicam.

If the technology is advancing at the rate you claim,
then using next year's best technology will involve
no more effort than using this year's latest and greatest.
As the equipment improves, it gets easier to use.  Hell,
in another year or two, they may even get color management
under control so that you don't have to be Russel Williams
or C.D. Tobie to make it work right.


rafe b.

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