Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I totally agree with you on the vinyl LPs. The reason why LP is alive is due to its superior sound compared to CDs. In fact, the last CD I bought was 10 years ago. Nelson - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff S" <four_season_photo@yahoo.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 1:39 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] Now Departing...Your Favorite >Specialty Camera Store > >Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:06:41 -0400 > >From: "Jim Shulman" <garcia@chesco.com> > >Subject: RE: [Leica] Now Departing...Your Favorite > >Specialty Camera Store > > > >I see something different occurring: photo shops > >catering film-based cameras will become its own niche > >cult, akin to lovers of 78rpm records. > > I'm confident that film will survive a digital > takeover, and that, like the vinyl LP, it'll move into > an upmarket niche and eventually find a new audience > who are intrigued by this alternative to whatever's > been crammed down their collective throats by the > big-box stores. In my area, a lot of the folks > shopping in the LP sections of the music stores look > like they're in their early '20s; most of them too > young to have remembered vinyl from childhood. Of the > new vinyl being released these days, lots are > predictable reissues of geriatric rock, but much is > new too. > > Maybe I'm getting old, maybe it's a backlash from > years doing systems admin work, maybe I've been > watching Jacques Tati films too much, or maybe I'm > just burnt-out, but I'm really starting to enjoy > simple and elegant things that work year after year > without software upgrades! I find myself attracted to > things like the Mercedes 280SL & '72 Datsun 240Z. And > IBM Model M keyboards--the tough-as-nails 5-pounder > that goes clickety-clack as you type. And great big > Grundig and Telefunken table radios with glowing tubes > in 'em. And lately, the only battery-powered thing > that I've been carrying around besides my wristwatch > has been my Pentax spot meter which does not go "beep" > or have a backlit, multimode, dot-matrix display of > any kind. > > Jeff > > __________________________________ > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html