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Subject: [Leica] enough with Olympus DSLR postings PLEASE
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Mar 23 14:18:23 2006
References: <C04822AF.E520%bdcolen@comcast.net> <442302FB.5090008@waltjohnson.com> <DF992BF8-BA3A-4ED7-9C12-54FD79EA3B54@cox.net>

You're right, of course. But without knotted shorts this place would be 
really dull.:+)
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...... Original Message .......
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:50:04 -0700 Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:
"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


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