Comments on: Olympus, Nikon shoot for lower-end SLRs

On eve of Photo Marketing Association show, camera makers announce new single-lens reflex models to compete in crowded sector of digicam market.
Photos: New SLRs from Olympus, Nikon

[qprize]

These Are NOT "Affordable" Cameras

When I can buy a 35mm SLR that will do most everything these
cameras do for about $250 - including a decent lens, these are
actually very expensive cameras. I can buy nearly 200 rolls of
film - or a second zoom lens and about 100 rolls of film - for
the difference in price. And skip the film processing costs, since
it costs about the same to develop and print a roll of film as it
does to print 24 digital images. Even if you only print half of the
digital images you shoot, it will take 2400 shots to break even.

An affordable camera doesn't cost more than many laptop
computers, or a collection of every iPod model, or a 32" LCD TV,
or a discount airfare from NYC to London, or the leather package
on a new Pontiac Solstice.

There's a sucker born every minute, and it looks like his official
ID photo is taken with a "low end" digital SLR.

[Siegfried Schtauffen]

Not always true

Many people, including me, print no photos at all. I have been using a digital camera since 1999 and I simply don't see the need.