Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, unless you're in your late teens or early 20s, I'm not talking about you. In drawing parallels to the speciality audio world, I'm talking about those who grew up surrounded by digital technologies, who take it for granted, whose main non-virtual exposure to the market has probably been through Best Buy or some other big box store (and there's a lot less diversity there compared with speciality stores of the 70s and 80s)--it's THOSE "kids" that I see spinning vinyl records today! People of my age (41) and older mostly unloaded their LP collections years ago and never went back. By the same token, back in the '60s my dad couldn't get rid of his vacuum tube hifi fast enough! And here I sit 30+ years later, building new tube amps based on Western Electric designs which were old when he was a kid; I wonder what he would've made of this turn of events. The ancient #45 triode is back in production again, as is the PX25-will wonders never cease. And likewise, I suspect a good percentage of the LUG membership _have_ embraced digital photography, and that many are hanging onto film cameras only for old time's sake. But I think maybe succeeding generations will find there's something to like about film technology. Good technology can fall by the wayside for awhile, but it's surprisingly hard to really kill off, IMO. Jeff >Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:06:52 -0700 >From: Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Now Departing...Your Favorite >Specialty Camera Store > >Nothing is being crammed down anyone's throats. People >have used film for years, and we know exactly what >we're doing when we choose digital for some of our >work. > On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 10:39 PM, Jeff S wrote: >> 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. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html