Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]every week more and more pro photographers are dumping film and going digital. Some I know are keeping only their M's for film others are selling them to pay for it. (one photojournalist I know is contemplating selling his R's to go digital... - one of the few R only using photojournalists I know - aside from Ted ). It's becoming very hard to work in photojournalism and not pay out the fortune it takes to go digital and it is only going to become more so. Same goes for much commercial work. It's getting close to the point where someone shooting film at a news event is going to look like someone turning up to shoot it with a Rollei TLR or a graphlex. Over the last seven or eight months it's become a deluge with the number of photographers changing over. Many of them haven't shot film since! Is it a bad thing? I don't know - it's a tool that gets the job done and allows you to compete (it's purely a business decision). the D100 and Canon equivelent are certainly increasing this - your local newspaper photographer who was using maybe two N90's or maybe N100 and an old F4 will now be able to afford to switch (betcha didn't know most of those guys and gals at your local paper have to provide their own gear didya...?). So - is it on topic? well much more so than most of the stuff that gets posted on here. Maybe people will be shooting digital for their main stuff and grabbing the M for a few personal shots - who knows. Me? I don't get enough "DAILY NEWS" photojournalsim assignments that are that urgent - mainly longer term - but the film still gets digitzed and transmitted. For the first time in well over a year I just had a client - big nature/geographic magazine, who still wanted to see slides - wow! So I'm hanging onto my M's and N***n's for now - actually going the other way - just got two new Fuji lenses for my 8x10! So, keep us up to date on the pro/am D100! tim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html