A Website to Process Digital Camaera Data Would be Useful

I believe that one must generally own a computer in order to process digital pictures. There are actually more than a few people that might buy a digital camera around the world and use it on-line if there were a way to upload the data to online picture processing at no cost. That seems like a potential new business opportunity to sell advertising.

For digital photo processing one must install a programming on one's personal computer that interprets the raw picture data and makes it uncoded friendly for general jpg use and so forth. If there was a website that had every digital camera manufacturers software online and processed incoming raw data, or if each manufacture offered free photo processing online, they would be able to sell advertising and far more digital cameras to people that haven't got a computer with them.

If more Africans had digital cameras, a myriad of news photos from current events along with pictures of endangered species from deep in the wild might be taken before such opportunties disappear beneath chain saw, parking lots and conversion of rivers into drainage ditches. It is unreasonable to expect every poor potential photographer in the Ivory Coast to own a web-book computer though to process their pictures. With quick on-line processing maybe they would have access to a public computer for on-line photo processing opportunities however.

Journalism should not be a mob-support activity in support of political elites and special interests running roughshod over individuals. If democracy is to prevail a little with enough social and environmental reason to satisfy even Socrates the people should be their own local journalists fully armed with digital photo processing opportunities.

The pampas of Argentina and pinnacles of Peru may look better from the more realistic digital lens of locals than through the lens of journalist Liberace's on chic safaris. Sure there is a place for elite, international boundry crossing broadcasters employed by powerful poltiical organizations and corporations with extreme concentrated wealth (I suppose allow I am not sure where that is), and there is even more the reason for free on-line digital photo processing for poor 2nd and 3rd world picture takers without a computer or 4G wireless.