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Subject: [Leica] Leica's April 24th announcement - place your bets!
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 18:06:53 -0500
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Try carrying 300 rolls of film and getting them through the x-ray machines.
 A few cables and batteries are nothing!

Tina


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at 
summaventures.com>wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Like you I'm a techie. I believe in it. But I have been thinking a lot
> about how
> technology impacts photography recently. When I fly I fly budget, and that
> means
> limited baggage. Buying hold baggage or whatever is of course possible,
> but it
> rapidly mounts up.
>
> Last time I travelled I could only travel with one bag for four days so
> had to
> leave laptop behind and carried only camera, charger and SD cards. I am
> however
> only shooting for my and very occasionally your, amusement.
>
> I wonder how our photo-journalistic heroes would have coped and whether
> they
> would have produced the images we revere them for, had they had to cart
> all that
> stuff.
>
> I completely agree with your observations about the Camino, from trying to
> take
> my kids to interesting sites! They are more worried about Facebook
> connectivity
> than what is around them.
>
> But somewhere buried in it technology advances.
>
> Peter
>
> On 06/03/2014 21:48, Tina Manley wrote:
> > I'm packing all of that right now for 3 weeks in Vietnam.  I'm more
> worried
> > about leaving some crucial cable than I am about what clothes I'm
> packing!!
> >
> > Tina
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Jim Laurel (gmail) <jplaurel at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> ....
>
> >> I'm a technologist, but I am also concerned about the impact of
> technology
> >> on society and culture. I walked the Camino de Santiago from St. Jean
> Pied
> >> de Port to Compostella last Fall - 800 kilometers. So many pilgrims with
> >> their faces buried in their iPhones, frantic to find some WiFi. Sitting
> >> together at tables, but isolated, each one in his/her own little virtual
> >> world. Every night in the Abergues, people would be scrambling for the
> few
> >> outlets to charge phones, cameras, iPads, etc. I can't help but think
> that
> >> 30 years ago, they would have been enjoying the moment a bit more.
> >>
> >> --Jim
> >>
>
> --
>
> ===========================================================
> Dr Peter Dzwig
>
>
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>


-- 
Tina Manley
http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com


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