"Who are we saving our stuff for?"
Our grandkids maybe!?!? 8-))
Its good marketing, people naturally want to protect
something and the manufacturers play on that. You can
go crazy with add-ons in this day and age. Just look
at what is available for cell phones, mp3 (IPOD)
players, and video game systems.
--- AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Speaking of LCD protectors, I finally "lost" my LCD
> protector for the
> E-1. I've been thinking of getting a new one, but
> the question is
> "why?"
>
> This is kinda like having slipcovers over your nice
> furniture to
> preserve it. You spend a fortune and hours upon
> hours getting a set
> of furniture in exactly the right fabric and color
> and then you throw
> a fitted white sheet over it. And I hate walking on
> plastic runners
> over the carpet!
>
> "Why?""
>
> Who are you saving it for?
>
> My A1 never had a cover over the LCD and it does
> show. The
> anti-reflective coating (yes, Minolta DID put an AR
> coating on the
> LCD--Canon are you listening?) is a bit spiderwebbed
> now, but nothing
> bad. But the E-1's screen has remained prestine as
> they also put a
> hardened coating on the glass.
>
> Everytime I think of doing LCD protection (and I
> have a few times
> with cut-down palm-pilot protectors), I look at the
> compromised image
> on the LCD and ask myself who I'm saving the camera
> for?
>
> It's not like these cameras are going to hold any
> major value. My
> E-1 is already scratched up from pounding rocks. The
> A1 is reaching
> the end of being serviced by Sony--when it dies,
> it's totally toast.
>
> We're going to have an entire generation of digital
> cameras that are
> prestine on the outside, dead on the inside--nothing
> more than shiny,
> expensive paperweights.
>
> Who are we saving our stuff for?
>
> AG
>
>
>
>
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