Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This "Mac vs Windows" debate is a very dead horse; it passed away sometime in 1996 or so. Please stop beating it ;-) If Leica were run like Apple, we'd be using a beautifully packaged LeicaFilm which was similar to, but incompatible with, standard 35mm film, at about a 30% premium due to Leica licensing fees, and sold only through Leica dealers. Only Leica cameras would use LeicaFilm. It'd offer some whizzy new features, but new film emulsions would arrive in standard 35mm format many months before LeicaFilm, and some emulsions would never be offered at all: Delta 3200 perhaps, maybe Acros as well. But how's about some nice Kodacolor Gold? Here on the LUG, we'd grumble about Kodak/Fuji/Agfa's stunning lack of vision in failing to make LeicaFilm their #1 priority despite it's 3% market share. All LeicaFilm manufacturers would be compelled to use Leica-approved film cassettes, but every so often, the one manufacturer making the cassettes and other special bits would experience production glitches, and we'd go for a few weeks without being able to buy any new LeicaFilm whatsoever. On the other hand, if Microsoft were in charge of the situation, we'd have 35mm film same as today. But Microsoft would produce 95% of the film, chemistry and paper. The chemistry itself would be a secret, and only officially licensed 3rd parties would have access to the formulae, and only select ones at that. On the whole MS Film would work pretty good, but the popular MS Film98 would be especially vulnerable to damage by many strains of bacteria, and a good deal of effort would be spent keeping one's negatives from basically rotting away. Eventually, Microsoft would declare that Film98 could not be made rot-proof, and urge all photographers to copy their older images onto FilmXP, which unfortunately would later prove very attractive to voracious insects. Meanwhile, some kid too poor to buy MS Film devises a new emulsion and chemistry from scratch, and offers the formulae free to anyone who asks. It has the advantage of being pretty rot- and insect-resistant. Pro photographers recognize a good thing and begin to adopt it, but amateurs are initially put off by the often plain packaging, lack of advertising, the need to bulk-load, and cut one's own leaders. Jeff >Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:50:50 EDT >From: LRZeitlin@aol.com >Subject: [Leica] Mac vs. Windows > >Bob writes: > ><<Also, the software outfits devote most of > >their talent to developing applications for Windows >primarily. We only >get the Mac version much later.>> > >Word, Excel, and Photoshop, the big three of computer >software, were developed for the Mac first. > >Larry __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html