Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It takes all kinds of people to make up a planet. Chacun a son gout! (To each his own taste). This planet's big enough to support many special interest niches, and with the efficiency of the web and click and order, more niches that are economically supportable will flourish, IMHO. Analog, Digital, bring 'em all on! AGS - ----- 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 AM 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