Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ribbons to daisywheels? manual to electric? bohemoth to cool-compact Hemingway models? Just because they lasted longer doesn't mean there wasnt change. I still have an old alpha-based computer that was made in the early 80s - it runs fine its just that there were computers out there that were better. I can run linux on it for free - I used to use it as a firewall and still could if I wanted to. To me the whole argument for "fast paced" digital age has as much to do with nostalgia as anything else. Dave On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:06:08 -0500, dnygr <dnygr@cshore.com> wrote: > 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 > > ________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >