Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Johnny: Because there aren't hundreds of millions of film cameras in circulation? I tend to think that makes it a lot less specialized than a vintage car rally or pinhole photography. There have been a lot of tides in the arts and in politics - you are a person I have always associated with bucking tides. So why surrender now? As for policing, I always wondered how Nikon figured out for its contests who was really using Nikons. Not that there's any way to tell. But I guess they would be more than happy to take the credit for a killer shot. So you slip one in. What do you do then? -- let film take the credit for the shot, do nothing and smirk to yourself? -- brashly announce that you had done it and announce yourself to be a fraud? There's not really much to be gained by cheating. Film was chosen as a theme, just like Canonet was on an RFlist contest. Just gives it a theme. Dante On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 12:38 AM, Johnny Deadman wrote: > The fact that you have to have a competition for 'film only' only > dramatizes the fact that the tide has turned. It's like having a > vintage car rally or a gathering of pinhole enthusiasts. I mean I have > a pinhole camera myself (and a leica) but they are now more for fun > than necessity. > > At first I thought I would enter a digital picture and see if anyone > noticed (how ARE you going to police this?) but then the moment > passed. > > I am still flailing to see the point. Over on Streetphoto we seem to > be able to discuss photography without continual reference to the > medium which forms the image. We haven't had a film v. digital > argument in months if not a year. Nobody cares. > > On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 07:10 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > >> You saw that as a final death knell? :-) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Johnny >> Deadman >> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:39 PM >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo Contest: MASSIVE FILM CAMERA >> COUNTEROFFENSIVE! >> >> >> Wow, film really is dead. >> >> -- >> John Brownlow >> >> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com http://www.unintended-consequences.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 >> >> > -- > John Brownlow > > pictures: > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com > > warblog: > http://www.unintended-consequences.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > ____________ Dante Stella http://www.dantestella.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html