Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<Ten years down the line, it will come full circle. People will be so choked with digital photography that they won?t be able to take it anymore. They will turn to film again.>> ====== That's what they said about tintypes too. No doubt film will always exist as a retro art form. We still use oil emulsion paints spread on canvas by the hairs of some unfortunate animal. But in ten years graphic arts will have so wholly embraced digital techniques that film will be regarded much as we regard wet collodin today. As far as Leica's demise, it can exist as a boutique camera maker supplying the collector's market. Prices will skyrocket from their current elevation into the stratosphere. But there will be a market. Ferrari and Maserati still sell cars to well heeled death defiers. More likely, if the company fails to raise needed capital, the name will be sold to an Asian camera conglomerate. Think Contax, Voightlander, Exacta, etc. Perhaps then we will have 21st century Leicas. Larry Z