Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Walter Levy wrote: > > I've been following a number of recent posts concerning digital imaging. > Dominique is selling all Leica equipment and going digital by 2004. Mark R. > is getting funky in the dark wet place. Folks are shooting TMax, Delta, > Neopan, Tri-X, Recording Film (!) and always experimenting, having fun with > the medium. Meanwhile some photojournalists with D1s are shooting for a > 24-hour window of opportunity. > > Is film photography here for the long haul? Walter, for now I'm confident that film is safe--I'm trying to picture my mom coming home from a vacation and sitting in front of a computer twiddling with 250+ photos in Photoshop and printing 'em all out-won't happen! For now, the masses still like George Eastman's "You push the button, we do the rest" and digital photograhy ain't there yet. The only wildly succesful consumer digital takeover I can think of offhand was the move to the Compact Disc from the LP, and again, that was for convenience's sake: No lint-clogged needles to deal with! No hasses with fussy paper sleeves! Had the CD been fussier than the LP, I think we'd all be spinning vinyl to this day. Right now, I think film and digital photography are coexisting just fine just as VHS video, D2 and Digital Betacam do. - -- Jeff Segawa Somewhere in Boulder, Colorado