Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We are talking about a lower end consumer digital camera here. Most of them come bundled with an interface to the computer and some rudimentary software that will get the job done. I agree that a CD burner or other storage device is necessary. But CD burners have come so far down in price that they are easily affordable for most people. And blank CDs in this market are virtually free. Putting the photos on the web in places such as geocities is fairly easy, even for people that don't know how to build a web site. And look at the really positive things: No more boring your "friends" and family with endless unedited slide shows; No more having to lug a heavy album of prints around to show your "friends" and family pixes from your vacation; Heck, Aunt Margaret, who lives 500 miles away, can look at your pixes on your very own website; And you can always burn copy CDs and mail them to everyone for Christmas! Austin Franklin writes: | The computer requirements for digital imaging are FAR different than they | are for sending and receiving email. If you plan on doing digital imaging, | you more or less want to get PhotoShop (a multi-hundred dollar or so program | in and of it self) or something of that ilk, you need a reasonably fast | computer, with a decent amount of memory and disk space. To store you | digital images you need a CD burner (or other suitable storage device). | Again, vastly different requirements than for email. | | Nothing straw about it! Regards, Bill Larsen Who is preparing his photo CDs for Christmas as we write ;-) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html