Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's using different means - all be it chemical - to capture the light/image. I can certainly understand that some people are committed to film for emotional, and artistic reasons. But if you really and truly believe that digital is akin to APS and 110, our discussing this is a waste of both our times. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Richard Ogden Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 7:20 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital "crop factor" B. D. Colen wrote: > If you're smart enough to operate a PC and send and receive email, > you're not stupid enough to actually believe what you've written. ;-) > Ah - tact and deplomacy - that'll advance your argument! > But in case you are - 126/110/APS/ are FILM formats that never caught > on; they were NOT new capture media. Digital is as much a new capture > media as film was when photography moved from glass plates to film. How is a move from glass plates to film a change of medium? Surely just a different base on which to coat the same medium. Richard ************************************************************************ ************* From: Richard Ogden ************************************************************************ ************* _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information