Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] "real photography"
From: "Tom Smart" <tom@sleepytom.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:22:29 -0500

As far as I'm concerned there is no "film versus digital" debate.

I use film, so for me it is not dead.  As far as press pits are concerned, I
don't care if nobody uses film.  I have no deadlines.  I can do a better job
with my basement darkroom than I can with scanned negatives/inkjet.  Others
can choose digital though; I don't care.

I don't see film becoming completely unavailable to me either.  If 35mm
isn't available, I'll do large format.  Certainly film in that format will
be around a long time.  And just because "the masses" may not choose fil,
that doesn't mean it won't be available.  How long has it been since the
press has used black and white film as the standard?  And yet, it is still
available to me.

No worries....

Tom

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