Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good God, Steve, is there something you haven't told us about your health? :-) I'd be interested in knowing how many professionals - facts please, as Austin might ask - have made a real switch from film to digital, as opposed to buying a p&s and not liking it - and have then switched back to film. And then I wonder what proportion of what fraction of one percent they are of all those who have switched to digital. I am not saying, Steve, that you or anyone else who doesn't want to should make the switch- I'm still primarily shooting film myself. But I think it's quite unrealistic to refer to digital as "all the talk," as though digital was the photographic equivalent of the 8-track fad. Still photography is going digital, and it is going digital with astounding speed. Sure, there will undoubtedly be film around as long as you or I are alive - but it will be a curiosity, not the photographic standard. And I'd be willing to bet that it will not be the photographic standard five short years from now. 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: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:06 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak stock is down(way down!) this morning. > I don't know if film is "outta here," but I find it both fascinating > and telling that Kodak is advertising a disposable film camera on t.v. > in a commercial telling people that they can use it to get "digital > pictures." And ads for the camera stress that it produces high quality > digital images. > > B. D. > ...I seriously doubt that film is "outta here." Kodak has always had a history of joining in with new technologies. Certainly they are deeply committed to film as it is their core business but they are smart to explore digital. I remember 20+ years ago all the howls from the motion picture film folks as Kodak started to sell VHS video tape (they only sold somebody else's tape under the Kodak logo). While digital is all the talk it is interesting to see (on the various lists I subscribe to) the number of people who have switched over to digital, and then see many of them announce they are moving back to film. Someday it will be a completely digital world, but not in my lifetime. sl - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html