Re: [Leica] Digital has won....?

["Jim Laurel" <jplaurel@nwlink.com>]

Just kidding, Steve!  Well, er...I hope it turns out to be a joke and that
we will have film for a long time to come.

However, there is a good argument for stock photographers to go digital.  A
successful stock business depends on an ever-growing collection of saleable
images.  The simple truth is that with a digital camera, you can be more
productive.  No scanning, no captioning with little sticky labels, no buying
film (running out of film is unlikely if you travel with a 60gb Powerbook
and a pocketable 80gb firewire drive), no trips to the lab, no scratched
film...need I go on?  It's just about enough to sacrifice that special Leica
look, don't you think?

On the other hand, with everyone going digital, the images that can be
produced by the Leica M cameras are aesthetically more different than ever
from the kinds of photos people will be accustomed to seeing.  I'm impressed
by what my new 10d can do, but a Leica M, it ain't.

- --Jim

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:27 PM
Subject: [Leica] Digital has won....?


> > That's right, Chandos.  Digital has won and our Leica M's will be
> > paperweights by 2010.  Let's shut down the LUG and go home.  Last one
> out,
> > please turn off the lights...
> > --Jim   :-(
>
> But that decadent, rich,
> liquid look I'm acustomed to with my M cameras is nowhere to be found.
> Maybe one day I'll figure it out and make a "Leica look" Photoshop action.
> One thing that is taking some getting used to is not shooting at very wide
> apertures like can with an M camera.  Jim ....too
>
>
> Jim....but.... ?  ...so we give up on the leica look and dof control for
> what,  exactly?   Steve
>
>
>
>
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