[Leica] A digital sensor is just another type of film

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

Dear Colleagues,

Brett Weston had to destroy his negatives to maintain the value of his 
prints. It was the only way he could assure the buyer of the one of a kind 
value of 
his acquisition. That says something about the significance of negatives. 
Their permanence. Their ability to regenerate fresh prints. Their 
incontrovertible 
reference for the original scene. Their physicality. 

What I find odd in our thinking is the notion that film is limited and labor 
and time intensive. Therefore, we should consign film to obsolescence. Yet 
we 
could all return to our film Nikons and still practice digital photography 
without missing a beat. Long before I bought my first digital I scanned my 
favorite film prints as they came from the processor and made them into 
image files. 
And I still have their negatives. Sometimes I think a sensor is just another 
type of film.  

Bob