Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]hey BD and Walt...really ? ..... what is at stake here; why are folks getting their shorts in a knot? I fail to understand why people get off on massaging this subject to death, instead of doing something productive...anything... seems the future will take care of itself...without the slightest impact caused by the most sincere deliberations here. Steve On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Walt Johnson wrote: > B.D. > > I'm going to avoid this discussion but would make one comment. It's > rewarding to know I'm not the only one who makes you so damn > irascible. > > Walt > > B. D. Colen wrote: > >> Oh please, Peter. Get a grip. Whether or not this technology will >> morph into >> another, even better capture technology, film is now the 'former' >> technology >> - even if some prefer to keep using it - and it's been evident for >> at least >> a decade to anyone with open eyes that it was going to become >> 'former.' >> >> As to current cameras having a six month shelf-life, saying that >> is about as >> silly as saying that film is going to come back and supplant >> digital as the >> dominant technology. Today's digital cameras only have a six month >> shelf-life for those people who are far more interested in having >> others see >> what's hanging around their neck than they are in what they do >> with that >> object. ;-) >> >> >> On 3/23/06 9:50 AM, "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote: >> >> >>> B.D. >>> >>> I have been trying to stay out of this but... >>> >>> >>>> Don't blame 'digital' for the death of photography, >>>> >>> Photography won't die, not while there are good photographers >>> around - >>> including LUGers. >>> >>> blame those companies >>> >>>> and practitioners who insisted that digital was some weird and >>>> amusing >>>> passing fad (something you could regularly read on this list, >>>> certainly >>>> within the last 18 months.) >>>> >>> As to "fad", we know that no digicam has a shelf life of more >>> than 6 months >>> including Digital Ms. The question that we have to answer is >>> whether or not >>> there is another technology around the corner; we simply don't >>> know, it may >>> well be a fad in that sense. Remember video cassettes and digital >>> video cameras >>> and reel-to-reel... >>> >>> Peter Dzwig >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information