[Leica] Re: Photo Village's move is a good sign

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Define a few years, Bob.
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/4x6_permanence_preview.html
I don't know about you, but 104 years for color and 115 for black and
white will do it for me. (Hell, I'll settle for 50 - that means I'll be
long dead and my youngest child will be 71 before someone will need to
worry about the longevity of my prints.) What a shock that a Leica
dealer warned you that digital prints would only last a "few years." LOL
:-)

B. D.


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    I am not yet familiar with PhotoVillage but anybody who spends a
year -- 
and what must be lots of money -- to airfreight four TONS of camera
stuff from 
Paris to New York and then commits himself to what must be a serious 
investment in Manhattan must have confidence in the strength of the
traditional camera 
market -- regardless of all the talk on the LUG site about digital
cameras. 
   The digital world is upon us, of course, but by coincidence I was
talking 
today with a Leica dealer in Wisconsin who remarked that digital cd's
and 
photographs both have a life span of just a few years while traditional
photos 
have already have had a life span of well over a century. This Photo
Village 
investment in the future does not assure us that Leica as a company will
survive 
-- as some skeptics doubt --but it surely makes me feel that somebody
knows 
something. -- bob cole _______________________________________________
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