Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Now Departing...Your Favorite >Specialty Camera Store
From: "Nelson Chan" <cchan@info.com.ph>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:10:20 +0800
References: <20030921053947.66514.qmail@web14408.mail.yahoo.com>

I totally agree with you on the vinyl LPs.  The reason why LP is alive is
due to its superior sound compared to CDs.  In fact,  the last CD I bought
was 10 years ago.

Nelson

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From: "Jeff S" <four_season_photo@yahoo.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 1:39 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Now Departing...Your Favorite >Specialty Camera Store


> >Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:06:41 -0400
> >From: "Jim Shulman" <garcia@chesco.com>
> >Subject: RE: [Leica] Now Departing...Your Favorite
> >Specialty Camera Store
> >
> >I see something different occurring: photo shops
> >catering film-based cameras will become its own niche
> >cult, akin to lovers of 78rpm records.
>
> I'm confident that film will survive a digital
> takeover, and that, like the vinyl LP, it'll move into
> an upmarket niche and eventually find a new audience
> who are intrigued by this alternative to whatever's
> been crammed down their collective throats by the
> big-box stores. In my area, a lot of the folks
> shopping in the LP sections of the music stores look
> like they're in their early '20s; most of them too
> young to have remembered vinyl from childhood. Of the
> new vinyl being released these days, lots are
> predictable reissues of geriatric rock, but much is
> new too.
>
> Maybe I'm getting old, maybe it's a backlash from
> years doing systems admin work, maybe I've been
> watching Jacques Tati films too much, or maybe I'm
> just burnt-out, but I'm really starting to enjoy
> simple and elegant things that work year after year
> without software upgrades! I  find myself attracted to
> things like the Mercedes 280SL & '72 Datsun 240Z. And
> IBM Model M keyboards--the tough-as-nails 5-pounder
> that goes clickety-clack as you type. And great big
> Grundig and Telefunken table radios with glowing tubes
> in 'em. And lately, the only battery-powered thing
> that I've been carrying around besides my wristwatch
> has been my Pentax spot meter which does not go "beep"
> or have a backlit, multimode, dot-matrix display of
> any kind.
>
> Jeff
>
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