Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] Re: what put you over the top?
From: Henry Posner/B&H Photo-Video <henryp@bhphotovideo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:31:11 -0400

At 03:01 AM 07/13/2001, you wrote:
>For what it's worth, I purchased two little Polaroid i-Zone cameras for the
>children of a friend of mine a week ago, and they failed to live up to 
>even the
>modest expectations indicated on the box and held by the eight-year-olds who
>used them.  The box implies that this little $20 plastic camera will produce
>instant, matchbox-sized color pictures, but we were unable to obtain even a
>recognizable image on most of the frames, and nothing that resembled the 
>pretty
>pictures on the box.  And the pictures cost more than fifty cents each, so 
>trial
>and error is expensive.

I had exactly the same experience with the I-Zone. FWIW, the JoyCam 
produces somewhat larger and somewhat better images.
- --
regards,
Henry Posner
Director of Sales and Training
B&H Photo-Video, and Pro-Audio Inc.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com

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