On 9 Dec 2000, at 10:55, Garth Wood wrote:
> Hope it's still there.
Me too!
> They also have the new Fuji (I *think* it's the FinePix 4900 with 6x
> optical zoom), which looks a lot like the Olympus Centurion-S, except
> it's digital (has the same controls as the FinePix 4700, albeit placed
> differently, and is a kick-ass little digi...).
Will look at the Fuji, too, but what I'm *really* trying to do is get my
girlfriend interested in the Olympus gear. So far, she's not "bit" at the
OM line... too hooked on the Pentax MF stuff, I suppose... but she
does want to eventually get a digital, so I thought I'd show her the E10.
Thus far, she's been most impressed with the high-end Sony Mavica
cameras... they seem to have the most features she's interested in...
but the E10 sounds like one heckuva digital so I'll show her that.
> E-10s are gonna be scarce for awhile, I'm afraid -- Oly's got a winner
> there. The dye-sub printer was $1,999.00 CDN, and produced the most
> amazing prints I've ever seen. All-in variable cost for an 8x10 glossy
> is about $3.00 CDN, which isn't bad at all (and it's portable!).
Jeff (the McBain's salesperson) raves 'bout the Oly E10 and dye-sub
printer. Says they're the best there is! Of course, all of this stuff is
WAAAAAY beyond my means, but ya can't blame a fella for drooling,
can ya?!?!? :-)
> Ken Norton's waxed lyrical about the potential for selling such prints
> "live" at various functions (weddings etc.). While I think that's a
> good idea, I have no idea just how fast the E-10 outputs a print. If
> it's several minutes per print, you could conceivably have a lot of
> increasingly frustrated people lined up impatiently waiting their turn.
> Mind you, if you were simply outputting samples, and were taking orders
> on the spot based on the samples...
You might be right but, then again, having to wait a few minutes is
better than having to wait days (weeks?). I think the attraction would be
for people to "place their order" then go about their business (e.g.
enjoying the wedding reception" and coming back in awhile to pick-up
their order.
> "A bad day doing photography is better than a good day doing just about
> anything else."
AMEN!!!! S'long as you add the "when it's an OM camera" caveat! :-)))
Heading to McBain's any minute now...
Regards,
Chris
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I'm *not* a Zuikoholic.... I'm a Zuikohobbiest!
Chris O'Neill (coneill@xxxxxxxxxxx)
http://www.nucleus.com/~coneill
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