Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the history, Kyle, it all comes back to me now. I was not an earliest-adopter because I was firmly convinced this new fangled digital stuff had no real future, at least until 2015. Always right on the bleeding edge, I am. --Bob ==On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:39 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > With the introduction of the Leica Digilux in 1998, Bob, Leica also > invented what we call "re-useable film". It's like an Everlasting > Gobstopper. The film in the Digilux is exposed, then the exposures are > "wiped off of it" leaving the film, for all intents and purposes, > _unexposed_ again, and may be re-used to take another 8 images. This may > be done repeatedly. With the Ur Digilux Leica revolutionized photography > in a way that would have driven the photographers of old completely mad > with joy and envy. Film producers, like Kodak, unable to comprehend the > immensity of this invention reacted the only way they could without their > brains bursting -- they pretended that it hadn't happened. Anything else > would have been too terrible to imagine. > > If you had a Leica Digilux your would would be revolutionized. However, > the Ur Digilux was only made for six months in 1998 and they are very rare. > > kc > > On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Robert Baron wrote: > >> ==On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:26 AM, kyle cassidy on the lug >> <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> they were handing out film when i went two years ago. i still have the >>> roll they gave me. >>> >>> >> >> What? ?It won't fit in your Digilux? >>