Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Absolutely, Bob - Digital is undoubtedly proving far too complicated for the average snapshooter, as it is for the time-pressed pro, and will undoubtedly pass from the scene in the same way that glass plates and the Instamatic did. Why I'm sure that within the next five years or so we will see film once again dominating photography, and we'll all be laughing up our sleeves - if we can only get those damn garters off - at the idiots who believed that digital with its cards, deleting files, battery woes, and CD transfers - (and some day you'll have to explain what those things are - has died on the scrap heap of photo history. :-0 On 5/27/05 2:40 PM, "Afterswift@aol.com" <Afterswift@aol.com> wrote: > Here's a different perspective on the future of digital cameras: > http://startribune.com/stories/535/5426001.html > > The trouble with digital cameras is not only their complexity but their > afterbirth -- cards, deleting files, battery woes, kiosk protocol, CD > transfer, > etc. Film retains its simplicity, but then so does the horse and sulky. The > difference, if we're still horsing around, is that film evolves and the > horse > species doesn't. > However, horses win horse races. And film might win photographic races. I'm > not being negative here. > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information