Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now Steve, If you look closely you'll see I've massaged nothing here but rather avoided the whole digital issue. The Capa thing, though, was not only massaged but stomped to death. My part in that little tete a tete would have had my nose against the blackboard were I a B.D. student. Fortunately, being quite past that age, and stage, made it possible for me to attempt enlightening the enlightened.. Initially, I thought failure was not an option. Not only do I pride myself in having an innate persistence, I can be as big a blabbermouth as any one on the LUG (almost ;-) ) Nonetheless I did fail! Bested and busted and off to lick my wounds. There will, (*/hear me Great Zeus/*) be another day. Until that time I busy myself more productively. Cleaning lenses, checking shutter speeds, emptying my colostomy bag. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. My spirit is dimmed but not gone. I shall(Macarthuresquely) return. Walt Steve Barbour wrote: > hey BD and Walt...really ? ..... > > what is at stake here; why are folks getting their shorts in a knot? > > I fail to understand why people get off on massaging this subject to > death, instead of doing something productive...anything... > > seems the future will take care of itself...without the slightest > impact caused by the most sincere deliberations here. > > Steve > > > On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Walt Johnson wrote: > >> B.D. >> >> I'm going to avoid this discussion but would make one comment. It's >> rewarding to know I'm not the only one who makes you so damn irascible. >> >> Walt >> >> B. D. Colen wrote: >> >>> Oh please, Peter. Get a grip. Whether or not this technology will >>> morph into >>> another, even better capture technology, film is now the 'former' >>> technology >>> - even if some prefer to keep using it - and it's been evident for >>> at least >>> a decade to anyone with open eyes that it was going to become >>> 'former.' >>> >>> As to current cameras having a six month shelf-life, saying that is >>> about as >>> silly as saying that film is going to come back and supplant >>> digital as the >>> dominant technology. Today's digital cameras only have a six month >>> shelf-life for those people who are far more interested in having >>> others see >>> what's hanging around their neck than they are in what they do with >>> that >>> object. ;-) >>> >>> >>> On 3/23/06 9:50 AM, "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> B.D. >>>> >>>> I have been trying to stay out of this but... >>>> >>>> >>>>> Don't blame 'digital' for the death of photography, >>>>> >>>> Photography won't die, not while there are good photographers >>>> around - >>>> including LUGers. >>>> >>>> blame those companies >>>> >>>>> and practitioners who insisted that digital was some weird and >>>>> amusing >>>>> passing fad (something you could regularly read on this list, >>>>> certainly >>>>> within the last 18 months.) >>>>> >>>> As to "fad", we know that no digicam has a shelf life of more than >>>> 6 months >>>> including Digital Ms. The question that we have to answer is >>>> whether or not >>>> there is another technology around the corner; we simply don't >>>> know, it may >>>> well be a fad in that sense. Remember video cassettes and digital >>>> video cameras >>>> and reel-to-reel... >>>> >>>> Peter Dzwig >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >