Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I also agree. Digital has pretty well supplanted 35mm for me already but i can not see MF backs being inexpensive enough for me to justify buying one any time soon - however good they are. On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 01:03 pm, Phong wrote: > Dante, > > Interesting thesis; though my own prediction is that > sheet film formats, particularly 4x5 willl outlast > 120 roll film, and long after 135. This is based > primarily on my assumption that 4x5 film and camera > are much easier and cheaper to manufacture in small > quantity. > > In some sense, death of a format is not > a well defined concept. I understand that 127 > format is still used (http://www.frugalphotographer.com/cat02.htm) > and perhaps even more arcane formats and processes. > > I think it will still be a long time (past our collective > life time) before the last 135mm film is used, and > much longer after that for sheet film. As long as > a person's creativity responds emotionally to a medium, he/she > will go to great length to procure the materials to > work, to create, to express in that medium, long after > the consumers, the advanced hobbyists and the professionals > have moved on. For God's Sake, people are still oil > painting, aren't they ? > > > - Phong > > > Dante Stella wrote: >> ... >> My thesis is that the longest-lived film format will be 120 b/w, not >> 135. And probably by quite a margin. >> >> http://www.dantestella.com/technical/tyranny.html > > -- > 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