Lazy people and "smartphones" continue to erode P&S sales

"RichA" wrote in message
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BBC:

23 December 2011 Last updated at 09:35 ET
Smartphones eat into low-end camera sales in US, study

Smartphones are eating into sales of basic cameras and camcorders in
the US, according to market researchers.

I bought one for the camera because I can download an app from an advocacy
group that deals with vision issues that uses the camera as a magnifier to
enable reading of documents with small print

"ala" wrote in message
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I bought one for the camera because I can download an app from an
advocacy group that deals with vision issues that uses the camera as a
magnifier to enable reading of documents with small print

Wow, sounds like an expensive, power hungry magnifying glass to me.

Trevor.

"Trevor" wrote in message
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"ala" wrote in message
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I bought one for the camera because I can download an app from an
advocacy group that deals with vision issues that uses the camera as a
magnifier to enable reading of documents with small print

Wow, sounds like an expensive, power hungry magnifying glass to me.



you would think so.
It's superior for a number of reasons.
It corrects for the lighting conditions in a way that paper and glass cannot
do in ambient light.
Eg you can read in dimmer lighting situations.
It lacks the uneven distortion that a hand held lens produces across its
surface.
It improves resolution of the underlying font/image/whatever.
You can adjust the size of the font in a way

I had resisted buying a phone because I couldn't see the information. I
bought one once a vocational counselor showed me what it could do.
I was so impressed, especially since Siri makes accessing the information
easier.

The institute has a number of other things that I will be downloading over
the next week and see what value I have gotten.

In rec.photo.digital Trevor wrote:

"ala" wrote in message
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I bought one for the camera because I can download an app from an
advocacy group that deals with vision issues that uses the camera as a
magnifier to enable reading of documents with small print

Wow, sounds like an expensive, power hungry magnifying glass to me.

Which offers a degree of magnification and image quality at least an
order of magnitude above any optical magnifying glass, plus a host of
other features useful to those with poor sight. Have you checked the
prices of the very best optical magnifying glasses you can get? Sounds
a good deal to me.

--
Chris Malcolm

"Trevor" writes:

"ala" wrote in message
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I bought one for the camera because I can download an app from an
advocacy group that deals with vision issues that uses the camera as a
magnifier to enable reading of documents with small print

Wow, sounds like an expensive, power hungry magnifying glass to me.

Yes -- or else, it's a way to use the smartphone you actually have with
you to accomplish something that in theory would be more efficiently
accomplished by the magnifying glass you forgot to bring.
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:11:30 -0500, "ala"
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"RichA" wrote in message
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BBC:

23 December 2011 Last updated at 09:35 ET
Smartphones eat into low-end camera sales in US, study

Smartphones are eating into sales of basic cameras and camcorders in
the US, according to market researchers.

I bought one for the camera because I can download an app from an advocacy
group that deals with vision issues that uses the camera as a magnifier to
enable reading of documents with small print

My medical nephew has an app which lets him measure the pulse. He is
waiting for an app which will enable him to measure blood O2 in the
finger.

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:15:52 -0500, tony cooper wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:52:05 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:11:30 -0500, "ala"
wrote:


"RichA" wrote in message
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BBC:

23 December 2011 Last updated at 09:35 ET
Smartphones eat into low-end camera sales in US, study

Smartphones are eating into sales of basic cameras and camcorders in
the US, according to market researchers.

I bought one for the camera because I can download an app from an advocacy
group that deals with vision issues that uses the camera as a magnifier to
enable reading of documents with small print

My medical nephew has an app which lets him measure the pulse.

Every watch with a second hand I've ever owned has had that "app".

My wife, a now-retired nurse, has never owned a watch without a second
hand. No designer watch, no matter how stylish, has ever met with her
approval to own.

I once bought her a very nice, and expensive, wris****ch as a
Christmas gift. It didn't have a second hand, but I thought she could
wear it as a dress watch. I had to exchange it.


Why do the blood pressures read by nurses differ so much from
doctors, at least in the 'Health Fair' at the Mall, they do.
The quacks findings are always higher for me.

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:15:52 -0500, tony cooper
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:52:05 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:11:30 -0500, "ala"
wrote:


"RichA" wrote in message
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BBC:

23 December 2011 Last updated at 09:35 ET
Smartphones eat into low-end camera sales in US, study

Smartphones are eating into sales of basic cameras and camcorders in
the US, according to market researchers.

I bought one for the camera because I can download an app from an advocacy
group that deals with vision issues that uses the camera as a magnifier to
enable reading of documents with small print

My medical nephew has an app which lets him measure the pulse.

Every watch with a second hand I've ever owned has had that "app".

This one reads out the pulse directly. It also gives a waveform.

My wife, a now-retired nurse, has never owned a watch without a second
hand. No designer watch, no matter how stylish, has ever met with her
approval to own.

I once bought her a very nice, and expensive, wris****ch as a
Christmas gift. It didn't have a second hand, but I thought she could
wear it as a dress watch. I had to exchange it.


He is
waiting for an app which will enable him to measure blood O2 in the
finger.


Regards,

Eric Stevens

"Eric Stevens" wrote in message
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My medical nephew has an app which lets him measure the pulse. He is
waiting for an app which will enable him to measure blood O2 in the
finger.

It's amazing how non technical people think you simply need an 'app" to do
anything, forgetting the sensors/interface are the real hardware, and the
iphone simply adds a processor and display. In many cases the device can be
made just as cheaply as a stand alone item rather than an iphone add-on.

Trevor.

On 1/16/2012 4:15 PM, tony cooper wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:52:05 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:11:30 -0500,
wrote:


wrote in message
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BBC:

23 December 2011 Last updated at 09:35 ET
Smartphones eat into low-end camera sales in US, study

Smartphones are eating into sales of basic cameras and camcorders in
the US, according to market researchers.

I bought one for the camera because I can download an app from an advocacy
group that deals with vision issues that uses the camera as a magnifier to
enable reading of documents with small print

My medical nephew has an app which lets him measure the pulse.

Every watch with a second hand I've ever owned has had that "app".

My wife, a now-retired nurse, has never owned a watch without a second
hand. No designer watch, no matter how stylish, has ever met with her
approval to own.

I once bought her a very nice, and expensive, wris****ch as a
Christmas gift. It didn't have a second hand, but I thought she could
wear it as a dress watch. I had to exchange it.


She could always use the "one Mississippi" method. It worked great for
me in the darkroom.



--
Peter