[Leica] was: waiting fireworks, now snapshot treasure (long)

[rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)]

Earlier today, Sonny responded to an inquiry from Ted in pertinent part:

> I'm gonna keep on shooting film, until I can figure a better way  to keep 
> the 
> shoe boxes filled with prints instead of digits.

I've chimed in a time or two before on this subject.  I am in complete 
agreement with Sonny on this......but I do like to use my digi Canons 
and am trying to come up with a middle ground.

For example, at least once a year I find myself printing a number of 
shots of our dogs to send to a friend in the UK. I use a program called 
Fotoslate http://www.acdsystems.com/products/fotoslate/index  that lets 
me semi-quickly put 4 shots with captions on an 8.5x11 inch letter sized 
sheet of Epson Premium Semigloss paper; I print 2 copies of each page on 
an old Epson 870 printer that sits next to my desk (my big Epson 2200 is 
in the next room) and one set of the pages goes off to the friend and 
one set goes in our shoebox or album.

Now you might ask, but what about the 'negatives'?  Well, how many of 
the prints in our old family shoeboxes have negatives with them?

Last year I bought one of my daughters an Epson PictureMate snapshot 
printer to make quick prints from her digisnaps: 
http://tinyurl.com/dga4a  and I wonder if maybe I should get one for me 
as a quick way to keep the shoe box full.

Just thinking out loud here.....

--Bob