What was wrong with film?

And a lack of surprises is nice, too. My daughter went to Arizona last
summer and took a new (35mm film) camera with her...turns out it had a
"feature" that neither of us was aware of and she wound up taking two rolls
of film in "panoramic mode" (where "panoramic" doesn't mean a wider than
normal negative, it only means the top and bottom are masked out)...well,
this resulted in those shots being ruined (everything appears much farther
away than she expected) and Fuji charged over $35 per roll instead of $5 per
roll for printing those rolls. BTW, they lost my business forever in
claiming that 35mm negatives that were still 36mm wide could no longer be
printed on standard 4"x6" paper with black bars on the top and bottom (if
they didn't want to trim them) but "had" to be printed on paper about 12"
long. That was the cost of a decent digital memory card down the drain...

"Charles" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:22:59 GMT, "Jeremy"
wrote:



Agree. One other advantage, less loss when all the pictures are bad.
I like to take aquarium pictures, about 1 in 50 come out worth saving.
disappointing when I take in a roll of film and have no keepers in the
package.


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- Charles
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In article , "George"
wrote:

And a lack of surprises is nice, too. My daughter went to Arizona last
summer and took a new (35mm film) camera with her...turns out it had a
"feature" that neither of us was aware of [...]

RTFM

"jjs" wrote in message
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In article , "George"
wrote:

And a lack of surprises is nice, too. My daughter went to Arizona last
summer and took a new (35mm film) camera with her...turns out it had a
"feature" that neither of us was aware of [...]

RTFM

Anyone who can't RTFM for a consumer film camera is going to be in serious
trouble with digital...

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan

jjs wrote:

In article , "George"
wrote:

And a lack of surprises is nice, too. My daughter went to Arizona last
summer and took a new (35mm film) camera with her...turns out it had a
"feature" that neither of us was aware of [...]

RTFM

Really, someone who doesn't notice the panaramic mode knob (don't they
have a mask in the finder?) would have no problem formatting the memory
card on the plane trip home trying to look at their pictures..
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Stacey

"Stacey" wrote in message
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Really, someone who doesn't notice the panaramic mode knob (don't they
have a mask in the finder?) would have no problem formatting the memory
card on the plane trip home trying to look at their pictures..

What these BDI digicams need is the dialog:
[REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WIPE OUT YOUR PICTURES?] [NO] y
ARE YOU FRIGGIN KIDDDING [YES] n
YOU KNOW WHAT "WIPE OUT" MEANS [NO] beach boys?

jjs wrote:

"Stacey" wrote in message
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Really, someone who doesn't notice the panaramic mode knob (don't they
have a mask in the finder?) would have no problem formatting the memory
card on the plane trip home trying to look at their pictures..

What these BDI digicams need is the dialog:
[REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WIPE OUT YOUR PICTURES?] [NO] y
ARE YOU FRIGGIN KIDDDING [YES] n
YOU KNOW WHAT "WIPE OUT" MEANS [NO] beach boys?

Seriously, I wonder how many -computer illiterate- digicam owners (which
would describe 99% of digicam buyers) understand or know what the word
"format" means? I can easily see someone thinking this will somehow enhance
their images! :-)
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Stacey

Seriously, I wonder how many -computer illiterate- digicam owners (which
would describe 99% of digicam buyers) . . . .

What a stupid statement. It conveys much more information about you than it
does about owners of digital cameras (and what it says about you isn't
flattering).

"Stacey" wrote in message
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jjs wrote:

"Stacey" wrote in message
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Really, someone who doesn't notice the panaramic mode knob (don't
they
have a mask in the finder?) would have no problem formatting the memory
card on the plane trip home trying to look at their pictures..

What these BDI digicams need is the dialog:
[REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WIPE OUT YOUR PICTURES?] [NO] y
ARE YOU FRIGGIN KIDDDING [YES] n
YOU KNOW WHAT "WIPE OUT" MEANS [NO] beach boys?

Seriously, I wonder how many -computer illiterate- digicam owners (which
would describe 99% of digicam buyers) understand or know what the word
"format" means? I can easily see someone thinking this will somehow
enhance
their images! :-)
--

Stacey

George writes:

And a lack of surprises is nice, too. My daughter went to Arizona last
summer and took a new (35mm film) camera with her...turns out it had a
"feature" that neither of us was aware of and she wound up taking two rolls
of film in "panoramic mode" (where "panoramic" doesn't mean a wider than
normal negative, it only means the top and bottom are masked out)...

Many digital cameras are much worse. You think you have the photos,
then you don't, or you erase them by accident, etc. You can't erase
exposures on film (unless you fail to rewind it), but it's easy on a
digicam.

Overall, these are problems with the design of the camera, however, and
have nothing to do with the type of capture used.

--
Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Many digital cameras are much worse. You think you have the photos,
then you don't, or you erase them by accident, etc. You can't erase
exposures on film (unless you fail to rewind it), but it's easy on a
digicam.

I'm sure some people would be happy if they _could_ erase their digital
media, but sometimes the data is kept and the directory pointers are zeroed.
OT, for sure, but I know a fellow who delighted in loaning out floppies for
his classmates to use in the class Mavica. It's astounding how people behave
alone with a Digicam.