This sounds about right:
Forty percent of U.S. households are expected to own at least one digital camera by the end of 2004 and more consumers are printing their digital pictures at retail shops, according to a recent study....Ownership of digital cameras will rise this year by one-third from about 30 percent currently, as consumers become more comfortable with the devices.
My two years of photography classes in college left me with both a respect and admiration for the arduous process of exposing, developing and printing images with analog camera film. But while I'll keep my grandfather's Nikon F as long as it continues to function, the sheer convenience and ever-increasing quality of a digital camera — even a modest Kodak model — made a convert out of me. Yes, all things digital depreciate and pale in comparison with their successors, much more so than analog technology - at some point, however, one needs to simply step onto the train. I've zeroed in on the highly regarded Olympus C-5060, and before my expected trip to Albany in May, I'll be applying a four-year-old gift certificate towards a purchase. I'm looking forward to bringing slices of life to five megapixels near you.