"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:01:57 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

Konica - Minolta quitting camera business.
http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/1...ts_camera_biz/

interesting. with olympus getting out of the low end digital business
- point and shoot - and concentrating on the high end - dslr -, nikon
stops producing film cameras and canon thinking likewise, its going to
be an interesting year in the camera area.

Who uses film cameras any more?

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:59:25 -0600, Dan J.S. wrote:

Who uses film cameras any more?

Me for one.
You still get better quality for a given investment that way.
This will change for sure.

And then you have all who shoot far away from the power grid.
The batteries in my 'chemical' cameras last for years and one
of them - my old SLR - even works with flat batteries if I
judge the light correctly....

BTW, I do have a digital camera too and I find it very useful
in situations when I wouldn't have bothered with photographing
in the past.

/Martin