I got a Nikon camera, want to take a phooooo-tograph,
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away!
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Betsy HP - Jan 12, 2006 5:06:12 am PST #6507 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
Jon B. - Jan 12, 2006 5:13:46 am PST #6508 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
In the most recent fiscal year ended March 2005, Nikon said that film camera bodies accounted for 3 percent of the 180 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in sales at the company's camera and imaging division. That is down from 16 percent the previous year.
By contrast, sales of digital cameras have soared, the company said, jumping to 75 percent of total sales in the year ended March 2005, from 47 percent three years earlier. Scanners and other products account for the remainder of the division's sales.
Wow! I'm sad, but it's hard to argue the business merits of the decision.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 5:17:11 am PST #6509 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love my film camera, dammit! I love my digital cameras too, and as someone intending to buy another Polaroid camera, perhaps they're not talking about me.
I want to believe that the sales of digital cameras will plateau, and that film SLRs will always have a place.
But then you have this -- who the HELL needs thirty nine megapixels¹?
¹: Rhetorical.
tommyrot - Jan 12, 2006 5:42:04 am PST #6510 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
as someone intending to buy another Polaroid camera
?
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 5:44:07 am PST #6511 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's the question?
tommyrot - Jan 12, 2006 5:45:22 am PST #6512 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What's the question?
"Why?"
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2006 5:47:30 am PST #6513 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because I like them. They have a total spontaneity that other technologies can't match. They're made for snaps that go up on corkboards, or fridges--and honestly, the pictures seem to be more representative to me.
tommyrot - Jan 12, 2006 5:51:11 am PST #6514 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I see your point - but you can't get the same spontaneity with, say, a digital camera and a portable picture printer (like this [link] Of course, with the digital camera and portable printer, that's two things to carry....
sj - Jan 12, 2006 5:51:23 am PST #6515 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I think Polaroids make a great first camera for kids because they get to see the results very quickly.
sumi - Jan 12, 2006 5:52:33 am PST #6516 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
It's really useful to have something where you can see the image quickly.