At 05:18 PM 9/30/2003, Arthur Entlich wrote: >he told me he goes to Costco for his processing and printing, >and they charge something like $5 for developing and printing a 24 >exposure to 4x6 prints.
Our local Walgreens' was doing 4x6s from digital media for US $0.29 each. The infrastructure for getting hassle free prints mass market prints is developing (so to speak) really fast. Since the costs of kiosk prints from digital will tend to be lower (to the Walgreens of this world) than chemical film development, I suspect that digital will win on both convenience and cost grounds very shortly. The current problem is running out of media capacity while on vacation in an underdeveloped country. In the US, even this is not a problem. Pop into the nearest WalMart and buy a new card. After allowing for wasted shots, probably similar in cost to buying film and having the whole roll developed and printed - not quite as convenient, but close. I tried to dissuade a friend of mine from buying digital for a long international trip coming up in November. I lost. We will see who was right later. -- Clive http://clive.moss.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
