[Leica] The Media Dilemma

[Afterswift at aol.com (Afterswift@aol.com)]

In a message dated 1/9/05 11:35:36 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:


> As the events are historic in nature, and beyond the mundane needs of
> present day journalism, that was my baseline consideration.
> I treat my digital files as ephemeral, hence disposable.
> --S. Dimitrov
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Mr. Dimitrov,

I've had this gnawing feeling ever since digital came to photojournalism 
that 
it was too good to be true.
Like making some Faustian deal. I just couldn't sign on the dotted line. I 
use two fine digital cameras, but I think I know where they belong in the 
photographer's scheme of things: the convient SUV or Pickup truck. But for 
the long 
haul a different vehicle is required: the cross country great train where 
you 
travel with a ticket in your pocket and true destination marked in your soul 
that a historian can find a century later.

Bob