[Leica] Second thoughts about digitals

[rhaightjr at yahoo.com (Bob Haight)]

I bought a digital camera and it really is convenient
to use (Nikon D70). I just take the memory card to my
developer and haven't read any of the instructions and
could not imagine trying to work through photoshop.
But, I think a lot of people do like the digital
process. What I miss are the negatives, especially for
family stuff, so I can make copies in the future. I
doubt people will ever give up the instant feedback of
digital to return to film. Bob

--- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
> > 
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