On Monday 11 February 2002 05:47 pm, Winsor Crosby wrote:
Currently, you can buy a self-powered iPod with a Firewire 5
Gigabyte drive, which will download your images and fits in your
pocket.
How many digital cameras have Firewire? The only ones I know are N* D1 and
ContaxN Digital - not exactly cheap. Even Olympus E-10 and E-20 don't have
Firewire. And will iPod work with a camera - I've heard that it requires
proprietary software and will talk only to an iMac (not a PC, so how about a
camera).
Another problem I have with digital is batteries - BTW this problem is also
shared by most film wonderbricks. OMs (well, most) require batteries, but I
can easily carry a year's worth in a small pocket. Digitals and wonderbrick
eat bulkier batteries, and faster. Doesn't matter if you shoot in a studio,
or stay in hotels where you can recharge, but on a hiking trip it's not
practical. I'm sure new technologies will solve these problems, but a really
practical digital system is still not there, IMHO. And battery technology is
tricky - laptop makers still struggle do get decent capacity/weight ratio
after all the years of development.
Pawel
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Pawel Golik
I was not suggesting to go out and buy an iPod. I was just pointing
out that compact self powered digital storage is also here. A
battery on a hard drive will last pretty well if the only time you
access it is to upload or download a file. The usage of a battery in
a laptop is completely different.
The other point I was trying to make was that even though digital has
all those problems you mention, people will deal with it if they get
better images with digital. After all, how inconvenient is a chemical
process? However an infrastructure was created to deal with it.
Anyway, it seems that the inconvenience of digital even now is not
too awful, since it seems to be the only segment with significant
growth.
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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