Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lugnuts: As a looong time silver process imagemaker I just want to say; I just had an awakening. I saw results from several new top of the line, pro, semi-pro digital cameras and I predict one thing...get accustomed to not finding your favorite film (not just Kodakchrome) waiting you at your local camera shop. Film is dying, if not yet dead, sorry I thought I would never say that. Following the article in the NY Times two Sundays ago on how major motion picture production is drifting into digital capture and distribution, the recent report from PMA that digital camera sales have passed film camera sales this Xmas season and the fact that most newspaper/magazine photography is now digital, I have been converted. Look at the number of our members (surely we are among the most conservative camera enthusiasts ) who have abandoned the silver darkroom for digital reproduction, why not the silver camera, if it produces, as the darkroom, equal or better results, please do not tell me your 11x14 prints can not have the same quality and the 4x6 are certainly as good. I have seen equal quality, by eyeball, maybe not some esoteric paper filled with numerical description of the image. Let the collectors reign, the shooters will soon become converts to new technology with different countries of origin , pre visualization will be accomplished on an LCD and batteries will replace filters as the major topic of discussion. Happy snaps or is that now, Good pixels, Steven Alexander