Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Article on the Leica Matsushita partnership to produce compact digital cameras
From: "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:25:59 +0200
References: <001301c12bd9$ec988280$0201a8c0@Workgroup>
 
Frank writes:

> Do you know what electronics were like 45 years
> ago?

If you mean solid-state electronics, they were like digital cameras today:
Volatile (i.e., obsolete in a month), unreliable, expensive, inferior to more
conventional technologies, and appealing strongly only to the equipment geeks.

Forty-five years from now, we'll probably all be shooting digital, but it won't
be tomorrow.
In reply to: Message from "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> (RE: [Leica] Article on the Leica Matsushita partnership to produce compact digital cameras)