On Jul 3, 2006, at 7:27 AM, mike wilson wrote:
> If the product I desire is not there, I cannot buy it. Which is
> what I'm doing. 8-) But if the industry doesn't know I'm doing
> that, it will never develop the product I desire. I don't believe
> politicians when they tell me that they are doing what I asked them
> to, despite the evidence of my senses - I won't believe the
> photographic industry either.
How did the industry learn to produce the options they have in the
past? Because people wanted to buy them and let THEM know (not forums
like this one), to a small degree, but mostly because either they had
an idea, built it, and fished it out into the marketplace, saw money
get returned, or because their product marketing department
investigated the market for an idea and found there was adequate
interest to be worth a development project.
Very very few companies base product decisions on unfocused input
from people ranting like I see on this forum. If you want to
influence a company's product development folks:
- write a brief with some supporting data allowing
analysis of market opportunity, cost and risk.
- establish a relationship with influential folks in the product
development groups, win them to your side.
- expect that 98% of all such proposals will never make it
past the first person's litter basket without extreme perseverance
and patience on the part of the proposer.
>> - Slide vs print is irrelevant ... that's a matter of presentation
>> vehicle.
> Except one is not yet available in similar quality.
What "one" is not yet available in "similar quality"?
Prints? That's bullshit.
I have a large number of traditional darkroom aficionados visiting my
work on exhibit right now. I have to inform them that not a single
sliver of silver-halide emulsion was harmed in the making of my show
pieces. What I'm hanging are 8x10 to 11x17 inch B&Ws in this show
printed right here on my desk with an Epson R2400. You need larger
sizes? No problem ... I had two prints made for a client last week,
21x29 inch image dimension, printed on Epson R9800 machines at
Calypso Imaging. The quality is breathtaking.
Projection?
For home use, a 20-23" display screen is available sub-$800 nowadays
and easily surpasses a Kodak Carousel projector with standard lens
and the typical home projection screen for presentation quality.
Maybe not at the $500 home consumer price point, but there are
projectors of surpassing quality available right now. I set one up at
my contract client's office for presentations and video conferencing,
can't remember the brand off hand but it was about $3500 or so,
connects wirelessly to any computer system that you want to use as
the projection host. It produces a fantastic, color managed, very
high resolution projection image on par with the quality of a top
line 20 inch desktop monitor.
The options are out there. You have to be willing to pay for them if
you want them. Just like it's always been.
Godfrey
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