Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D. I'm going to avoid this discussion but would make one comment. It's rewarding to know I'm not the only one who makes you so damn irascible. Walt B. D. Colen wrote: >Oh please, Peter. Get a grip. Whether or not this technology will morph into >another, even better capture technology, film is now the 'former' technology >- even if some prefer to keep using it - and it's been evident for at least >a decade to anyone with open eyes that it was going to become 'former.' > >As to current cameras having a six month shelf-life, saying that is about as >silly as saying that film is going to come back and supplant digital as the >dominant technology. Today's digital cameras only have a six month >shelf-life for those people who are far more interested in having others see >what's hanging around their neck than they are in what they do with that >object. ;-) > > >On 3/23/06 9:50 AM, "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote: > > > >>B.D. >> >>I have been trying to stay out of this but... >> >> >> >>>Don't blame 'digital' for the death of photography, >>> >>> >>Photography won't die, not while there are good photographers around - >>including >>LUGers. >> >>blame those companies >> >> >>>and practitioners who insisted that digital was some weird and amusing >>>passing fad (something you could regularly read on this list, certainly >>>within the last 18 months.) >>> >>> >>As to "fad", we know that no digicam has a shelf life of more than 6 months >>including Digital Ms. The question that we have to answer is whether or not >>there is another technology around the corner; we simply don't know, it may >>well >>be a fad in that sense. Remember video cassettes and digital video cameras >>and >>reel-to-reel... >> >>Peter Dzwig >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >