RE: [Leica] Analog vs. digital

["Lee, Ken" <ken.lee@hbc.com>]

Jeff,

I agree with you completely. We tend to think everyone has a computer and
uses it for everything. It just ain't so.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jeff S [SMTP:4season@boulder.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 06, 2000 11:00 AM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	Re: [Leica] Analog vs. digital
> 
> 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