Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted and Mark Sounds like what folks said about the car and the telephone, nah it'll never last. Wake up fellas that's what they're making 20 gig hard drives for and bigger. I don't think film will go away anytime soon, but digi's not going anywhere-it or some clone of it is here to stay. There are a lot of lazy photogs out there that can't find negs they shot last week let alone 40 yrs ago and those that do have forty yr old negs 1/2 of them are not printable. Not all of the rest of the world has it together like some of you do. Cheers Wilber Ted Grant wrote: > Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > The best weapon against high tech digital AF idiots is a short stack of 11x14's > > in a box. (no maple syrup) > > This will prove to them that we are actually in our old age capable of focusing > > a camera lens and enlarger lens and putting two LED's in the middle and pulling > > out a stinky print! A short stack of prints is a necessary photographic tool > > like spare batteries, model releases, a lens hood. They WILL respect the results > > of Leica optics! They WILL have severe doubts about the Manliness/womanliness of > > their stinkin CPU's. Phooey I say to that!!!! :) >>>>>>>>>>>> > > And Mark the best is! No matter what they shoot on their hotshot digi > cams, they wont have diddly squat images for printing in a week or in 24 > hours, the way the digi files are dumped because nobody has room to > store them for the future or printing. > > Some how I have this feeling that eventually someone is going to wake-up > to the fact that all this digi stuff isn't going to be, the be all to > end all from an historical point. > > It comes to mind, as I've been printing negatives from Paris and Madrid > from 40 years ago that if it were hot dog digi.... it wouldn't have > been there to print! And unfortunately the talents of many of the young > guys who are doing all this electronic stuff will wake-up too late! > > ted - -- Cheers Wilber GFE tel. 803-469-2440 http://www.jeffcoatphotography.com