Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]David Rogers writes: > > I'm not ready to give up on film! At least not yet. Film is versatile and > archival. Just not as "immediate" as digital capture. We seem to be living > in a time/culture of immediacy. Is immediacy something we really need, or > is it something industry is telling us we need? > > I've heard all the hype about digital -- quality, speed, economy. Being > able to see your image right then has some appeal. But isn't that merely a > crutch? > > Dave > That is pretty much how I feel about it--for what I do I do not need the immediacy of digital. I can live with turning in the film this afternoon and having negs and contact sheets tomorrow morning, sooner if I process them myself. I prefer to invest my time in thinking about the state of the images I am creating rather than the supposed advances in technology which for my purposes is dubious. sl - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html