Re: [Leica] Darkroom

["Steve LeHuray" <steve@streetphoto.net>]

B.D.

You may be surprised to hear that I mostly agree with you, but, it will also
surprise you when I say, being the hothead that I am, I am tired of people
chiming in saying something like "....o'migod, the sky is falling, I better
get me a digicam before I have a nervous breakdown..." I really do not care
that many people are moving over to digicam. What I wish is that they would
just stop announcing that film is dead, because it is not.

Not everybody wants to go along with what seems to many to make sense -- yes
most people drive cars with automatic transmissions, but then there are
those people insist on a car with a nice 5-speed.

Regards,

sl



> Hi, Steve - The fact that you and many other people world-wide will
> stick with film for sometime to come doesn't negate the validity of
> Lew's statement - "the future is clearly digital."
>
> Most working pros are going to be forced, by the demands of customers
> and economics, to switch to digital - if they haven't been so forced
> already. (Keep in mind, btw, that many pros replace their equipment on a
> regular basis, so making the switch from film to digital simply means
> replacing the current film camera with its digital counterpart.)
>
> As to the admittedly huge non-pro market, hobbyists of any kind often
> want what they consider to be the "latest" and the "best" - and in photo
> that is taken to mean digital. Very very very few hobbyists own Leicas -
> hell, very, very, very few pros - comparatively - own Leicas. So it's
> not a matter of throwing away Leicas; it's much more a  matter of what
> to get junior for his birthday, what to get to record family events, or
> what to get to replace the low-end Pentax SLR or the Canon EOS Rebel.
> And the answer to those questions will, in very little time, have
> nothing to do with film.
>
> Oh, right - obsolescence. We are at the point now with digital where
> people can buy in at a number of price points and be happy for quite a
> few years to come with the results they get. Sure, digital will continue
> to improve. But how many people will have to have the improvements?
> Certainly not enough so that your concern about "digicams" becoming
> obsolete every two years is relevant.
>
> Best,
>
> B. D.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve
> LeHuray
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 1:42 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Darkroom
>
>
>> Much as we may hate to admit it, the future is clearly digital. There
>> are too many pluses.
>
>> -Lew
>>
>
> ....I have no doubt that for many people that is true, but, is also true
> that for many of us, we will continue to shoot film. Especially when you
> consider that for many decades millions of film cameras have been sold
> (somewhere I read that photography is the #1 hobby, worldwide) annualy.
> it makes no sense to think that all those people are getting ready to
> throw their Nikons, Hassleblads, Leicas or whatever in the dumpster so
> they can shoot with digicams that become obsolete about every year. I
> will be continueing to shoot film for many years with simple Leica Ms
> because that simplicity to not having to think about various program
> modes is liberating for me to be able to think about the picture and NOT
> the mechanics of taking the picture.
>
> sl
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