[Leica] The high price of progress

[joelct at singnet.com.sg (joelct)]

Doug 

You may not have read my earlier threads re 'planned obsolescence' at the 
consumers' expense - but that's how the way the world of modern technology 
tightens it noose around us and empties our pockets

Joseph Low
Singapore



--- dnygr <dnygr@cshore.com> wrote:

> Someone wrote regarding Contax that certain camera manufacturers
> didn't predict how quickly the change to digital would be and noted
> how typewriter manufacturers had done the same thing.
> 
> What a costly change it has been to move from typewriters fo
> computerized word processing. Every few years, our equipment needs
> to be replaced because it is dated. That rate of change and its
> accompanying cost was not true of the typewriter age. I'm not
> speaking against the change, but I am noting that many of us now are
> spending a lot more money to type our messages than we would be if
> we still used typewriters. I fear the same will be true for our
> photography. We will be spending money on new cameras as ours become
> obsolete. If we print our own photos, we will be spending outrageous
> amounts on printer ink (doesn't it seem that printer ink sells for
> about $3,000 a gallon!). 
> 
> What it boils down to, in my estimatin, is that you and I will be
> spending a lot more money in the digitl camera age. It looks like
> the price of progress.
> 
> Doug Nygren 
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