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     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: PHONES AND CAMERAS 20827
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Gidday Glen!

-> 
->  HN> I see the Kiwi's beat the Wallabies 22-0 !
->  HN> That Kiwi Haka must be strong stuff!
-> 
-> Those Maoris can be quite scary.  When the Europeans settled in New
-> Zealand they had to make a treaty with the Maoris, who killed so many
-> of the invaders that they had to be respected.
->
Yep, and I have friends all over both
countries! Aukland, Cambridge, Hamilton, and
Christchurch in NZ. Brisbane, Bathurst, Melbourne,
Adelaide, Sidney, Perth, Broome, and even one in 
Canberra in Oz!
 
->  ->  -> I sometimes wish that every cameraphone in the universe
->  ->  -> exploded right now; I'd lose half of my friends, but it
->  -> 
->  -> I can understand poor MLoo's feelings about cameraphones, as they do
->  -> rather intrude upon life, but like mechanical looms and horseless
->  -> carriages, they are a fact of modern times.
->  ->
->  HN> Ask Poor Prince Harry about that! 
->  HN> I think he's properly unhappy with
->  HN> camera phones right about now!
->  HN> Granny will give him what for I expect!!
-> 
-> That is for sure!!  He will be in the soup now.
->
I hope so! Silly behavior to say the least!
Strip Billiards takes entirely too long!
Strip tiddlywinks is faster!!
  
->  ->  HN> I would not object to that in any way. People
->  ->  HN> ask me if I use my camera phone as a camera and
->  ->  HN> I tell them no...if I need a camera I have over
->  ->  HN> 50 of them to choose from, any of them would do
->  ->  HN> a better job than the camera phone...besides
->  ->  HN> I'd have to pay extra to get the photo OFF the
->  ->  HN> phone..and I'm too cheap!
->  -> 
->  -> The recent camera phones can actually produce reasonable quality
->  -> pictures, which can be recorded on a micro-SD card and uploaded onto
->  -> your computer for looking at or printing out.  That said, I much
->  -> prefer to use a real camera, where I have more control over the pic.
->  ->
->  HN> They produce adequate but not totally
->  HN> usable photos. You certainly can post
->  HN> them on the internet, or send them
->  HN> to someone in an email, but they will
->  HN> not be suitable for enlarging and framing 
->  HN> and hanging on the wall.
->  HN> Still most folks don't do much 
->  HN> of that anymore anyway.
-> 
-> I think that there are very high definition digital cameras available
-> for producing wall-sized pictures, but at a price, of course.
->
Of course, and I have several of those.
 
-> It is sad that those expensive film cameras with wonderful optical
-> systems are now obsolete.  I would like to see someone come up with
-> relatively cheap digital back conversions for the best classics.
->
Oddly enough they are NOT obsolete as many
think. I have a friend who takes 4X5 cameras
and even an 8X10 Camera and uses digital 
Scanners for the "digital capture"...
Very interesting...but not very portable!!
 
-> The police here still use Polaroid cameras for their IDs, as those
-> pictures are very difficult to forge.
->
Getting harder to do since Polaroid is 
no longer making film...but there is a 
company in the Netherlands who IS making
polaroid film and Fuji also is marketing
a ling of instant film that works in 
Polaroid camreras. I have about $3000 
worto of polaroid film (including 
8X10 sheet film) and have been
"resisting" efforts to pry it away
from me!
chat with you soon!
ha
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