Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > > Okay, I can't help throwing in my particular piece of heresy. > > Perhaps because I live here in Silicon Valley, and though I cringe as > I type it, I have to point out that the days of film are numbered. > > Without any data to back it up, I'll just say that the days of brisk > 35mm camera sales are over. Their heyday was surely in the 60s and 70s. > I disagree, and I have done alot of serious digital imaging. For example, my wife loves double 4x6 prints. Color print film is dirt cheap, you take it to a one hour lab while you shop or walk around. You get back the prints, you flip through them and mail your friends and family the extras, you put the ones that you like in a photo album. It can't get any easier than this. No mouse, no photoshop, no printer, no manipulations, no e-mail. My Sony Mavica has been sitting on my desk for months, expensive experiment, pictures s**k. I do use my Canon Elura (Digital Video recorder), pictures blow away analog videorecorder's. The point is ease of use, quality and permanence. For me, I will continue to use silver film until the quality of digital surpases it, and then I'll just add a digital back onto my camera and lens investment. Kodak and Intel are reported to be developing a 35mm digital film cannister which would plug into 'any' 35mm camera. So against conventional wisdom, I'm buying 35mm. Jonathan Borden