Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] PJ standards -- Like Caesar's wife
From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:46:41 -0700

On the other hand, maybe there's just too much information about this era,
and its predecessor. Who's to say that this isn't a natural process of
attrition so that the subsequent period doesn't become bog down with our
historical baggage and its minutiae.
I don't know of any other time in history that the demotic experience has
been allowed to run so rampant.
Slobodan Dimitrov


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>From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] PJ standards -- Like Caesar's wife
>Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2003, 9:01 AM
>

> You don't understand the value to a news organization of going digital
> because you have not been part of a daily news organization. The saving
> in time and money is, ultimately, huge. And, forget the money, the
> savings in time is particularly important. Going digital means being
> able to sanely shoot closer to deadline - and it does not degrade the
> final product. Additionally, for all the moaning and debate here about
> the longevity of digital files, it is not only a good bet, it's a sure
> thing, that the NYT will convert its digital photo files from media to
> media, making them accessible far into the future; you're not talking
> here about some photo hobbiest at his home in Akron, with his home PC
> that he may not update in time to preserve his own archives.
>
> B. D.
> 
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