Re: [Leica] [Partly Relevant] [More Brackets] The Economical Leica

["Jeff S" <segawa@netone.com>]

Not all new technologies are appropriate to enough folks to become a
standard amongst the general population, and digital has some big problems
which keep my non photo-enthusiasm family members from being too interested
as of yet: All they want are nice clear snapshots from a compact and
fuss-free camera, and digital doesn't deliver right now. Call them when
storage media costs $7, holds 40 shots, and can be dropped off at the photo
counter for quickie, non-fading better-than-35mm prints. Maybe they'd like
the option of editing and printing the images themselves, with emphasis on
the word "Option".

Nope, none of them went with APS either--why bother? The film's expensive,
and why should they care of it's added conveniences when auto film loading,
rewinding, and DX encoding make 35mm loading pretty much a no-brainer, too?

I did own a digital camera but found it's limitations frustrating. For now,
I'm looking more towards a hybrid solution (anyone have a Microtek
multiformat film scanner to sell cheap, please email me) and won't be
relying on digital for attempts at Fine Art for awhile. Can't afford to!

Jeff

- -----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Willman <bryanwi@seanet.com>
>I worried about film getting replaced by digital for a time.
>I don't anymore.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John McLeod <johnmcleod@worldnet.att.net>
>>Thanks for the interesting thoughts Mr. Segawa.

You're welcome, but my dad was "Mr. Segawa", "Jeff" will do nicely for me
:-)

>>I agree, by the way, regarding the pleasures of owning this well made,
>>simple equipment -- though many of us probably wonder from time to time
>what
>>will ultimately "happen" to film in the digital future.
>>----------
>>From: "Jeff S" <segawa@netone.com>
It's refreshing to hear of folks still refurbishing 30
>year
>>old Leicas, yet still be able to take advantages of modern optics as the
>>budget allows. Hard to imagine that a person could've purchased a new M6
>and
>>Macintosh 512K not far apart. The Macintosh cost around $2900 by the time
>>you indulged in a second floppy drive and a printer; The Leica is still
>>genuinely useful!