Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/30

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Subject: [Leica] On Both Sides
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 30 15:36:47 2008

H. Ball Arche <h_arche@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Film doesn't suck energy for its continued existence.
> I doubt my film will survive the next, say, fifty
> years, but I'm absolutely positive my digital files
> won't. In the end it will be simply too expensive to
> keep them alive. The history of our age is becoming
> the stuff of electronic ephemera.

Do we need another film-vs.-digital thread?  Each has its merits,
drawbacks, fans and detractors, and either medium is as real as the users
choose to make it.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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