[Leica] The high price of progress

[dnygr at cshore.com (dnygr)]

Someone wrote regarding Contax that certain camera manufacturers didn't 
predict how quickly the change to digital would be and noted how typewriter 
manufacturers had done the same thing.

What a costly change it has been to move from typewriters fo computerized 
word processing. Every few years, our equipment needs to be replaced because 
it is dated. That rate of change and its accompanying cost was not true of 
the typewriter age. I'm not speaking against the change, but I am noting 
that many of us now are spending a lot more money to type our messages than 
we would be if we still used typewriters. I fear the same will be true for 
our photography. We will be spending money on new cameras as ours become 
obsolete. If we print our own photos, we will be spending outrageous amounts 
on printer ink (doesn't it seem that printer ink sells for about $3,000 a 
gallon!). 

What it boils down to, in my estimatin, is that you and I will be spending a 
lot more money in the digitl camera age. It looks like the price of progress.

Doug Nygren 

 
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