Yes, same street. I'm down in leBreton flats at Booth.
tOM
On Monday, September 23, 2002 at 13:07, William Clark
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "RE: [OM] Digital photography article" saying:
> Hey Tom, I am in the Clarica building O'Connor and Albert...pretty close to
> you!!!!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Trottier [mailto:Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: September 23, 2002 1:04 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [OM] Digital photography article
>
>
> On Monday, September 23, 2002 at 12:18, William Clark
> <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote re "RE: [OM] Digital photography article" saying:
>
> ...
> > I agree with the distribution over email, but you know what, when people
> go
> > over to friends' houses, it is the albums that come out and not the CD
> rom.
> > Albums can be passed around and you can socialize over it. I dread the
> day
> > when we sit in front of a TV to look at pics.
>
> It's certainly here. The newer DVD players read video CDs which are
> fairly easily created. At least with the TV, we can all laugh at the
> same picture at once.
>
> > My bet is that REGULAR consumers only take digital pics to email, when
> > quality doesn't matter. Again on our trip to PEI this summer I just
> walked
> > up to anyone with a digital camera and asked them what do they do with the
> > pics (much to my wife's chagrin). Nobody printed them. They were for
> > email. When it came time to take the mementoes, out came film. Digital
> has
> > a very long way to go to replace film in this respect.
>
> Until the old film cameras wear out, and colour printers get cheap and
> fast.
>
> > As for being cheaper I am not so sure. It maybe, but for the average
> > consumer amortizing the cost of a printer+paper+ink maybe a stretch. I
> > think alot of digital users now are going to find 10-15 yrs. from now that
> > they have lost their pics due to hard drive crashes etc. I will stick
> > mainly with film now, at least for "real" photography.
>
> Me too, but mebbe that 100 year CD will last longer than the dyes in
> our film and paper. It's certainly easier to backup.
>
> tOM
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