Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Colen wrote: But then this misses an important point too, Don....A digital P&S allows today's casual snapshooters to do what generations of casual - and all too annoying - slide shooters have done: shoot hundreds, thousands, of mundane, boring images of vacations, kids graduations, "foreigners," bring them home and then forget about them - except when they have a group of friends held hostage at the point of a Scotch bottle when they haul out the projector and send the friends right into deep coma.;-) In the digital age there is no slide film to purchase, no projector to purchse, no screen, no processing costs. Just digital images, stored on the computer as tiny jpgs, and either put up on hideously boring websites - or....brought out as slide shows for captive family members!!!! So what's the difference? Except for cost? And don't start talking about the amazing quality of those Leica lenses and Kodachrome, because in the first place, no end of quality will save those crappy boring images so many folks produce from being boring crappy from images. And, when shown on a good monitor, those silly jpgs tend to look plenty bright and sharp. :-) ======================================================================== Gee, that makes me feel guilty. Ya got me, I confess! :-) Thanks for reminding me to be more selective in the future - and to be more considerate toward my friends (while I still have some left). ;-) Regards, ===== Ray "The trouble with resisting temptation is you never know when you'll get another chance!" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html