Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're right, of course. But without knotted shorts this place would be really dull.:+) ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ...... Original Message ....... On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:50:04 -0700 Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote: "hey BD and Walt...really ? ..... " "what is at stake here; why are folks getting their shorts in a knot? " "I fail to understand why people get off on massaging this subject to "death, instead of doing something productive...anything... " "seems the future will take care of itself...without the slightest "impact caused by the most sincere deliberations here. " "Steve " " "On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Walt Johnson wrote: " "> 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