[Leica] So much for "film is forever"

[Spencer Cheng]

Ah, Ted. Humour us. I am not out there taking pictures with my smartphone because it’s raining and stifling hot and humid here in Shenzhen this morning.

99.99999% of all digital photographs taken are totally irrelevant after a day or 2. The remaining 0.000000001% will be treasured by archeologist in 5,000 years as they sift through the different layers of garbage dumps for usable flash drives for hints on how to reconstruct 21st century civilization since so few digital records has survived the test of time.

Spencer

> On May 15, 2015, at 18:49, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hi George my good man! :-)
> An absolute perfect call if  ever there was! 
> 
> Love ya guy for calling the shot as it is! Most of the so called collections
> people are referring to are meaningless other than to their direct families!
> Those who will in the future, do absolutely nothing with these humongous
> collections of 1's and 0's or nothing's, no different than those of us with
> photo albums of family reaching back pre ww1! Like pre 1914! :-)
> 
> Yep we have them in a so called safe place. WHY? Well simply because that's
> what we kind of do with family photo albums.  :-) DO WE LOOK AT THEM??????
> Not really if poeple are absolutely honest!
> 
> AND IT WONT BE ANY DIFFERENT WITH UMPTEEN THOUSAND DIGI 1's & 0's! So get
> over it folks, go out and expose more happy snap Friday Flower 1's & 0
> images! Have a nice day. ME? 
> 
> I'm going out on the back deck with a pleasant,  but big GLASS of simply
> beautiful refreshing wine and look through a book of something meaningful!
> "DOCTOR'S WORK! The Legacy of Sir William Osler!" Quite frankly one of the
> best examples of a project all shot in real life B&W un-posed using LEICA
> M's & SLR's OF SOME KIND OR OTHER! Oh yeah and all Tri-X --- ASA 800.  :-)
> 
> But one of the most wonderful books I ever produced with LEICA M Cameras
> using film and all available light! And not one thought of techie stuff
> entered the project at any time!  Nothing but? SEE! CLICK! 
> Many of you have copies purchased in the past. It's been a complete sell out
> twice and the publisher isn't unfortunately going to print it for a third
> time!
>