Re: [Leica] Film Demise

["mdelman" <mdelman@rochester.rr.com>]

John:

You're right, you can get players for many of these.  Whether that is true
in 30 years remains to be seen.
However, the point I was making is that you'll need to exert alot of energy
and time to convert from format to format.  You can buy "older" technology
players, but it becomes increasingly hard to find these and they are
expensive because they are now specialty items, not mass market ones.

By the way, I left a format off the list.  MP3 digital music.  I bought a
Nomad player 1 year ago.  It's obsolete.  I bought a Personal Jukebox player
that holds 150 cd's in MP3 format in December '00. It cost over $600 and
took a long time to copy 50 cd's from my collection and put it onto the
player.  Guess what!  A company called Dataplay has just announced a digital
storage device (like a mini cd) that costs $6 and holds about 8 cd's.  That
is a far less expensive way to hold music than the Jukebox I just bought.
Bottom line.... my Jukebox is less than a year old and is clearly on the
road to extinction.

- -Mark

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@home.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Film Demise


> I am afraid your example is not a good one. I can get new players for all
> the media listed below (okay except the 8 track...). As a matter of fact I
> can get new players for 78 rpm records with a choice of all the various
> speed variations (76 rpm to 80 rpm). Unfortunately digital seems to have a
> reputation for killing off its wounded and I am planning to stick with
film
> for the foreseeable future.
>
> John Collier
>
> > From: "mdelman" <mdelman@rochester.rr.com>
> >
> > Think about the music industry...
> >
> > 45 speed records
> > 33 speed records
> > reel-to-reel tape
> > 8 track tape
> > cassette tape
> > CD
> >
> > Six different format changes for listening to music in about 30 years.
> > Think about what that means for digital photography.  Constant
conversion if
> > you want to look at your old pictures.  It's the device change over that
> > scares me.
>
>