Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Every serious news photographer I know but one has switched to digital (and it's almost impossible to compete if you don't) Many of the studio photographers I know are ditching medium format for digital - have you seen how many cheap Hasselblads there are out there now? And you can't give away Mamiyas. I'd guess 95% of the full time working news shooters on the NPPA-list are digital going by the conversations. Same listening to Editorial Photographers UK. Digital isn't a digital fad - it's here to stay and in much of the pro world is going to be the major way of making photographs. There is no way film is going to "win out in the end" Film will more and more become an alt. process, with film users being like those of us who still use POP paper of hand coat for platinum printing. In the end I wouldn't be surprised if most of the film (and certainly B&W) comes form the likes of Efke in Croatia or Forte and you have to buy it mail order from specialist stores. tim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html