[Leica] The Shakeout

[Afterswift at aol.com (Afterswift@aol.com)]

In a message dated 7/13/05 9:14:12 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:


> I take my cameras out and I make PHOTOGRAPHS, the camera i use, LEICA, 
> makes
> me THINK about the photographs before I take them. I compose them in my
> mind, and capture them on film, and then I develop this film and PRINT it 
> in
> my DARKROOM. Today's kids brains have been destroyed by auto-idiot cameras
> and they don't understand anything. Which is why their "photographs" are so
> bad. The so called "digital" is not photography. PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE 
> CREATION
> OF AN IMAGE ON FILM. My Leica cameras will last for another one-hundred
> years, and if I am not around to use them, then my grandchildren will use
> them and they will be just as capable as producing PHOTOGRAPHS then as they
> are now.
> 
> I'm glad many of you have been waiting for someone to say this.
> 
> George
> 
> --------------------------------------
George,

Don't despair. We're going through a shakeout period in photography. The 
tree 
is developing another branch, but the trunk and roots are intact, which is 
traditional technology. 

I've been doing some chinning on the new branch with a Nikon D70 and an Oly 
5050. Digital has its uses for swift distribution and feedback, but it is 
not 
permanent, has no negative for credibility, and the image is smoothed out by 
circuitry so there's no analogue tooth to it. Also cataloging digital images 
is 
very difficult because it has no center: no negative we can go back to for 
the 
record. I've given up trying to integrate my negative files with my digital 
files; so I'm keeping them separate. I'll avoid climbing too far out on the 
digital limb, however attractive it may be. It's a long fall to the ground. 

Bob R