Re: [OM] The end of OM?? (+ impending new SLR)

[Winsor Crosby]

I forget who was making the point, but they did not say there were 
Kodak disk cameras a century ago.  That was sometime in the middle of 
the last century. Earlier, before film merchandising was separated 
from the camera, Kodak sold sealed cameras which were returned to 
Kodak for processing when the film had been exposed.
Winsor

> I saw one excellent (outside) wedding shot from a disposable camera. Sharp,
> well exposed, absolutely amazing!
>
> BTW, I don't think Kodak made any disk cameras a century ago, but there
> were disk spy cameras.
>
> tOM
>
> On Saturday, January 19, 2002 at 18:09, Skip Williams
> <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote re "Re: [OM] The end of OM?? (+ impending new SLR)" saying:
>
> >  The disposable cameras of today are suprisingly good.  They've got the very
> >  good, all-purpose 400 or 800-speed films, moulded plastic lenses (somtimes
> >  aspherical), and fixed focus.  If you don't overstress their capabilities or
> >  expect too much, it's amazing the quality of the images they produce up to
> >  5x7 (or even 8x10 if you're lucky).
> >
> >  Skip
> >
> >
> >  >From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >  >Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  >To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  >Subject: Re: [OM] The end of OM?? (+ impending new SLR)
> >  >Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:06:09 -0800
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >And of course revived again with disposable cameras(which are better
> >  >than Kodak disk cameras were).
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>
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Winsor Crosby
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