Leasing configured camera system
A method for a customer leasing a configured camera system including a camera and services for using such configured camera system and paying for the lease of such configured camera system, includes the steps of providing an electronic database of information describing a plurality of differently configured camera systems which have different features and services that can be selected by the customer via a digital communications network; displaying at the customer's location remote from the electronic database various components of the camera system that can be combined into the configured camera system; the customer selecting desired components and services to provide the configured camera system and completing a lease agreement and providing a payment identifier specifying an account to be debited to pay for the configured camera system; and sending the camera to a designee of the customer and establishing a service user account that specify the selected services that the designee can use.
1. A method for a customer leasing a configured camera system including a camera and services for using such configured camera system and paying for the lease of such configured camera system, comprising the steps of:
(a) providing an electronic database of information describing a plurality of differently configured camera systems which have different features and services that can be selected by the customer via a digital communications network;
(b) displaying at the customer's location remote from the electronic database various components of the camera system that can be combined into the configured camera system;
(c) the customer selecting desired components and services to provide the configured camera system and completing a lease agreement and providing a payment identifier specifying an account to be debited to pay for the configured camera system; and
(d) sending the camera to a designee of the customer and establishing a service user account that specify the selected services that the designee can use with respect to the images captured by said camera.
2. A method for a customer leasing a camera system including a camera and services for using such camera system and paying for the lease of such camera system, comprising the steps of:
(a) providing an electronic database of information describing at least one camera system which has services that can be selected by the customer via a digital communications network with respect to images captured by said camera;
(b) displaying at the customer's location remote from the electronic database the various services of the at least one camera system that can be selected by the customer;
(c) the customer selecting desired services and completing a lease agreement and providing a payment identifier specifying an account to be debited to pay for the selected services;
(d) establishing a service user account that specifies the selected services that the designee can use;
(e) storing in the camera, a service identifier corresponding to the service user account; and
(f) sending the camera to a designee of the customer.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the camera includes firmware memory, and wherein the service identifier is stored in the firmware memory.
4. The method of claim 2 further including the step of:
(g) capturing an image using the camera; and
(h) forwarding such image to a service provider.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the customer selected services include the service provider storing the image on a digital media selected by the customer, and shipping the digital media to a designee of the customer.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the digital media is a CD-R.
7. The method of claim 4 wherein the customer selected services include the service provider storing the image on an Internet accessible digital storage device.
8. The method of claim 4 wherein the customer selected services include the service provider e-mailing the image to at least one e-mail address provided by the customer.