Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Analog vs. digital
From: Jeff S <4season@boulder.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 08:59:33 -0600

Walter Levy wrote:
> 
> I've been following a number of recent posts concerning digital imaging.
> Dominique is selling all Leica equipment and going digital by 2004.  Mark R.
> is getting funky in the dark wet place.  Folks are shooting TMax, Delta,
> Neopan, Tri-X, Recording Film (!) and always experimenting, having fun with
> the medium.  Meanwhile some photojournalists with D1s are shooting for a
> 24-hour window of opportunity.
> 
> Is film photography here for the long haul?  

Walter, for now I'm confident that film is safe--I'm trying to picture
my mom coming home from a vacation
and sitting in front of a computer twiddling with 250+ photos in
Photoshop and printing 'em all out-won't happen! For now, the masses
still like George Eastman's "You push the button, we do the rest" and
digital photograhy ain't there yet.

The only wildly succesful consumer digital takeover I can think of
offhand was the move to the Compact Disc from the LP, and again, that
was for convenience's sake: No lint-clogged
needles to deal with! No hasses with fussy paper sleeves! Had the CD
been fussier than the LP, I think we'd all be spinning vinyl to this
day.

Right now, I think film and digital photography are coexisting just
fine just as VHS video, D2 and Digital Betacam do.
- -- 

Jeff Segawa
Somewhere in Boulder, Colorado