I guess it's folks like that that keep the disposable camera business
going. That way they don't even have to load or unload the film. Right
back to the roots of Kodak's camera/film business.
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Crawford wrote:
> I worked for a few months at a large camera store here in Santa Fe and we
> had a lot of older customers who geniunely felt that film was easier and
> more convenient. They didn't own or know how to use computers and just
> wanted to take pictures and get back prints. There was one old lady, in her
> 80's who took tons of photos of her great grandkids, but didn't know how to
> load her camera with film even! About once every 2 weeks she came in and
> bought a roll of film at our store and asked us to take out the old one and
> load the new one. She then had us process the old roll in our lab. Many
> stores probably wouldn't load and unload a customer's camera every time, but
> we did because she was very nice to us and was a very regular customer. She
> said she didn't want to learn any technical stuff, just wanted to take
> photos of her family.
>
> Chris Crawford
> Santa Fe, NM
>
> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com
>
>
> On 1/3/07 9:40 AM, "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Well, I think it is a bit odd that convenience of viewing would be
>> cited as a reason. I could understand it if someone liked the camera,
>> the lenses, the look of the film images. I don't think anyone thinks
>> film is more convenient than digital and is one reason why many who
>> have bought digital cameras never pick up their film cameras again.
>>
>>
>>
>> Winsor
>> Long Beach, California, USA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:34 AM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>>
>>> ³My photographic medium comes in a roll with thirty-six image
>>> sensors to a box. Each box also provides the user with a free,
>>> image-memory system ‹ which is highly archival. And finally, the
>>> completed images don¹t even need to be viewed on a computer monitor
>>> at all ‹ you can just view the images directly on a light table
>>> with a loop! Magic.² Pete Myers, Santa Fe writing in Luminous-
>>> Landscape
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