Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe you are right, maybe not. The "silver is dead, long live digital" thing reminds of the "Black&White is dead, long live color", the "FB paper is dead, long live RC paper" and last, but not least, the "Painting is dead, long live photography" thing. Tarek - --------------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara L'expo continue sur/The exhibition continues at http://www.orients-unis.net le 06.12.2000 15:14, Steven Alexander à alexpix@worldnet.att.net a écrit : > Lugnuts: > > As a looong time silver process imagemaker I just want to say; I just had > an awakening. I saw results from several new top of the line, pro, semi-pro > digital cameras and I predict one thing...get accustomed to not finding > your favorite film (not just Kodakchrome) waiting you at your local camera > shop. Film is dying, if not yet dead, sorry I thought I would never say > that. > Following the article in the NY Times two Sundays ago on how major motion > picture production is drifting into digital capture and distribution, the > recent report from PMA that digital camera sales have passed film camera > sales this Xmas season and the fact that most newspaper/magazine photography > is now digital, I have been converted. Look at the number of our members > (surely we are among the most conservative camera enthusiasts ) who have > abandoned the silver darkroom for digital reproduction, why not the silver > camera, if it produces, as the darkroom, equal or better results, please do > not tell me your 11x14 prints can not have the same quality and the 4x6 are > certainly as good. I have seen equal quality, by eyeball, maybe not some > esoteric paper filled with numerical description of the image. > > Let the collectors reign, the shooters will soon become converts to new > technology with different countries of origin , pre visualization will be > accomplished on an LCD and batteries will replace filters as the major topic > of discussion. > > Happy snaps or is that now, > Good pixels, > > Steven Alexander >