19th June 2000

Some of us have grown up, but we still play with toys... which just so happen to be a lot more expensive. My wife nearly blew a gasket when she found out I purchased another digital camera. I should have come up with a 'top ten reasons I had to upgrade' list, but she still wouldn't have understood my motivation. Looking to justify your digicam indulgence? Think about how often you've erased great stuff from a whiteboard session. That info could have been captured, saved, and printed -- by using a digital camera! When have you been out and about without an easy way to copy visual data? Pull out the digital camera! The DSC-S70 has a specific mode for taking text-only photos; it saves them as 2-bit GIFs, and does a darn good job. Beats scanning any day. Besides, some things won't fit on a flatbed. Remember that next time you think that 3.3 megapixels are frivolous.