Interesting prototyping approach

[Dave Shaffer]

(05-31-2016 07:06 PM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  I do like some of the ideas there, and I wish him success.

Related to what he says about low-cost alternatives (which I've seen plenty of), I can say that nearly 40 years ago, I was super interested in photography. I learned to develop my own film and I had access to a darkroom to print my pictures. At a very low cost, I got a roll of 100 feet of bulk 35mm film which I would load into the cassettes myself, and thought, "I can finally afford to quit being stingy in what pictures I take!." But what happened was that the low cost made me a lot less careful, and the number of good pictures I got actually went down, not up. (I think you can see where I'm going with this.)

Wow - do I agree with you on this, with regard to digital photography. I took slides for 40 years. That cost almost a dollar a shutter push by the time you were done (film + developing). In those 40 years, I took some 7000 frames.

Now with my digital SLRs, I have taken probably 100,000 frames in less than 10 years, and on average they are nowhere near as good as the slides.