IIRC the actual estimate of households with computers is closer to 75-80%. Heck even my mother has a computer, and a more unlikely soul never existed.
Graywolf wrote:
Yep, it is easier to send prints to grandma. It is easier to pass prints around for your friends to look at. Prints are really the only reason slides and video never became the mainstream snapshot media. Also, folks on this list, seem to forget that 1/2 the people in this country do not own computers, and 75+% of the people in the world do not have them. Come to think of it since most of us here own maybe 5 computers what does that do for that 1 computer per 2 people statistic?
I took some film into Wal-Marts the other day (the local one has downsized the minilab to about 1/3 its area BTW), the nice girl there said she had a hard time getting the yellow out of my prints. She did a good job though as the tan hat in the photos came out neutral gray...
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Jostein wrote:
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Paul, it's about economics, not quality.
Even more so in the consumer market, because you don't ever need to have a picture printed again. Many, many people are happy with viewing their pictures on the camera LCD. Add the ones who look at them on a computer monitor and you have the great majority of the modern camera buying public. The economic repercussions of this in the photographic marketplace have only just begun.
Dunno Mike,
I think if you drop the print from the consumer equation, you're basically into the realm of home video where stills will loose against moving pictures any day. I think that most of the consumers still shoot stills with a print in mind.
Jostein
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