https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.photo/ZnqcQVzAln...
"Right now, 1 Megabyte of memory costs about $45 retail. This will not drop by an order of magnitude in the next decade without a breakthrough, or an economical Gallium-Arsenide process to replace Silicon."
"It's much easier to pass a stack of prints among a group of people than to set up a viewing session on the TV."
It makes you wonder what new technologies we dismiss today will actually start a revolution. Of course, not everyone was wrong about the future of digital film; this guy was spot on:
"In my opinion, the popularity of electronic camera is dependant upon the popularity of computers. If this so call multimedia become a reality, then more people may want electronic cameras."
I love this line. Even in 1990 people didn't believe Moore's Law.
Ouch!
The Nikon D1 didn't come out until 1999, so nine years later, for $6000, for a 2.75mp camera.
Did that even compete with film? Can you put that on the cover of a magazine at under 3 megapixels?
So yeah, it was a safe investment in 1990.