[Leica] enough with Olympus DSLR postings PLEASE

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Mar 23, 2006, at 3:17 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> You're right, of course. But without knotted shorts this place  
> would be
> really dull.:+)

'tis sadly true...I forgot just for a moment...

sorry, Steve




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> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:50:04 -0700 Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net>  
> 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
>
>
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