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: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:42:26 -0500

> 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.
>
>
Forty-five years from now (or sooner) I will be completeing my third
circumavigation on my sailboat. ;)

sl