[Leica] LUG membership

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Oct 22, 2006, at 2:48 PM, G Hopkinson wrote:

> I completely agree with Jeffery's comment regarding the moribund  
> 35mm SLRs markert. Although it does mean that there are many
> bargains out there on the Bay, for those committed enough to be  
> countercyclical. I must comment, though on two other things,
> Jeffery. Won't that new subscriber be the third 1000th?? Up, down,  
> up again ;-) and did you really say the number of pure Leica
> subscribers would be 50!!! Some sort of Freudian slip there ;-)

now you have gone and done it Hoppy....  did you imply that Jeffery  
is hung up on 50...?

Steve

> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org  
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> Jeffery Smith
> Sent: Monday, 23 October 2006 06:01
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] LUG membership
>
> That means he is the 2nd 1000th subscriber. The other one happened  
> when the
> numbers were going *down* from 2000.
>
> I was just considering to myself what Cosina will do next, in light  
> of the
> digital influence you mention here. If you were to prohibit digital  
> talk on
> the LUG these days, I think the membership might drop to 50. It is  
> sad to
> see this happening to 35mm film cameras. If you really want to read  
> the
> handwriting on the wall, go to Adorama and try to buy a decent 35mm  
> SLR. You
> have exactly five choices: Nikon, Canon, Leica, Vivitar, and  
> Phoenix (did I
> say decent? Then we are down to Nikon, Canon, and Leica). No  
> Pentax, no
> Olympus, no Minolta. I tried to buy a 35mm Pentax SLR body a while  
> back. I
> finally had to settle for a used Pentax *ist from KEH.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of  
> Brian
> Reid
> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 11:56 AM
> To: LUG@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] LUG membership
>
>
> A few minutes ago, someone subscribed to the LUG, and thereby  
> (unbeknownst
> to him) became the 1000th subscriber. Before the dominance of digital
> cameras, LUG membership peaked at nearly 2000, but it had dropped  
> to about
> 800 by midsummer 2006.
>
> I think this was due in part to a reduced interest in film cameras,  
> and in
> part to the growth of broadband (when more people have always-on  
> internet,
> there are more messages sent). I hope our 1000th subscriber isn't  
> driven
> away by the sheer number of messages, as many newcomers are.
>
> I'm pretty sure that the announcement of the M8 is what's triggered  
> the
> recent growth spurt in membership. Since none of us owns an M8 yet,  
> and very
> few of us have had a chance to touch one or use one, most of the  
> traffic
> about M8s has been rumor and speculation and second-guessing of its
> engineering.
>
> As the M8 becomes available, there will be more and more messages  
> about
> digital photography here on the LUG. I dearly hope that it doesn't  
> drive
> away the film stalwarts. A good picture is a good picture,  
> regardless of
> whether you took it with film or a digital sensor, with an M or an  
> R. I've
> even heard supportable claims that you can make good pictures with  
> other
> brands of camera.
>
> Brian Reid
> LUG Saloon Keeper
>
>
>
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