quest for pictures

Rumor has it that Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) may have mentioned these words: [Mach-2-Flyby camera snippage] I'm with you WRT this way of thinking, Tony, but for those of us who don't have darkrooms, the reproducibility of digital is quite nice... I was taking pictures on Christmas day, printing 3 copies of each picture that the family wanted on my QMS color laser printer (which don't look as good as my Epson photo, but it's not set up currently) and they're also archived on CD and in my safety deposit box. I'll admit that they didn't look perfect [color laser != photo proofing studio] , but if a fire hits my home, I still have the memories. I can't say that WRT all of my pictures of Germany when I was there in '91. I'm working on scanning all of my pictures, tho. ... And you'll have to pry my Canon T50 from my cold, dead hands, too. But with the purchase of my new house, the ability to go in and archive everything visually myself without needing 40 rolls of film, and be able to take pictures during my renovation & archive to CD will probably justify 1/2 the cost of the camera. With 5 Megapixels, 2 memory sticks & 2 batteries, I can archive a lot more information in 1/10 the time by myself than watching Wal-Mart fsck up 1/2 my film - and yes, the point I've not seen on the Megapixel versus film quality didn't take into account urine-quality developing. [We don't have a decent film lab here - Wal-Mart, K-Mart or jump the bridge to Canada, which gets expensive...] I've never seen better than 5 Megapixel photo quality come from any roll of film of mine from Wal-mart. This is not a slam on the film, or the camera... That's allz I know... Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an *older* .sig. (circa 1997!) Why does Hershey's put nutritional information on their candy bar wrappers when there's no nutritional value within?