Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] [leica] re: what put you over the top?
From: Dante Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:34:11 -0400 (EDT)

Come on, Kyle, they're just complaining about what will be low resale
value!


On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> >As digital threatens to sweep the craft of photography into the the
> >dustbin of history,
>
> though i always try and stay out of the leica flame wars -- i really can't
> let this go by without protesting -- how does digital sweep the craft of
> photography into the dustbin of history? did the integrated circuit sweep
> the craft of radio into the dustbin of history when vacuume tubes went the
> way of the dodo?
>
> digital or analogue, it's still photography, the only thing that changes
> is the process. did color sweep the craft of photography into the dustbin
> of history? photography's going to be around for a long long time.
> digital, if anything, is expanding its horizions rather than shrinking
> them.
>
> kc
>