Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/31

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Film megabytes and some curious contradictions
From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:30:54 -0700

>They're "into" neither
> >> reportage
> >> nor the finest in photographic quality....they are into
> "-isms" and politics
> >> and "gender issues" yadayadayada ad naseum.......but they
> shoot with an EOS
> >> rebel on "P", and blame the "lab guy" if their film doesn't "come out">
> >>
> >> THAT'S the "threat" to photography, film AND digital......
> >
> > Very true. And very, very, very depressing.
>
> Nonsense: very, very good. Let them sit around in dark Art Deco cafes in
> their designer labels, with their Grande Lattes and speak in five-syllable
> words.  More film for us, more Leicas for us, less competition for us.
> Unless, of course, you also happen to like Grande Lattes...
>
> M.


Yes, but then eventually they will have shows in swanky galleries and sell
30x36 prints for $10,000 - $15,000 and up, while Corbis and Time etc have
reduced their prices for the best documentary photography to $25.00 an image
for usage....

Tim A   :(