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Subject: [Leica] Film cameras and prices - OT
From: chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)
Date: Thu Aug 10 09:06:14 2006
References: <f135946b0608091409n442d974bu9a79947398bf66bb@mail.gmail.com>

Sounds like a business opportunity for computer savvy photographers.

At 05:09 PM 8/9/2006, you wrote:
>>Some people say film camera prices are dropping:
>>http://tinyurl.com/kv7w3
>>Chris
>
>Some film camera prices have dropped, some are still holding.
>
>Digital camera prices (dare I say so soon) WILL drop as the technology
>becomes outdated. It's like trying to sell your computer loaded with
>Win 98 or outdated processors. Unless recopied and updated every few
>years, even our storage devices for digital images might even become
>unreadable. With so many distractions in life, how many people will
>actually go through the repeated exercises (for the rest of their
>lives) of making sure that their files are in order. Unless hard
>copies are made in some form of archival medium and stored safely,
>there might even be half or even a generation of people who might not
>have any images to show at the end of the day.
>
>Dan K.
>
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Chris Saganich, Sr. Physicist
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New York Presbyterian Hospital
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