[LargeFormat] Money With Menaces

[philip lambert]

>
>     The worrisome thing is meeting people who have been perfectly capable
in
> the normal photo line being shunted into the digital business and set to
> floundering uncontrollably for 3 years. .

>      Uncle Dick

Dear Uncle Dick,
Today the Amateur Photographer compares 4 £330-£400 digital cameras in the 4
megapixel class and only one (Olympus) gives sharp pictures and its exposure
metering isn't without problems. After 6 months you could  probably sell
them at a 35% loss when the next new model comes out.  Better not to buy
one.

> I am going to stick to the traditional process.

So am I but I get my 35mm 6x9 sharp (usually) prints back from the printer
with the negs copied onto a CDRom against the day I buy an inkjet printer.
Keeping my options open to this extent is quite cheap. So far I haven't
found a rollfilm printer offering the service.

 >Our family crest features circling vultures....

After all these years you finally explain.... I thought they were our
grandparents in profile, just closing the deal.

Your respectful nephew Philip