Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Amen! D. On Oct 8, 2005, at 2:40 AM, Peter Klein wrote: > Doug Herr wrote: >> Sorry, this is a "me too" response... I like my R8 and I'd like to >> see what I could do with a DMR but if I couldn't get a decent film >> for my SL I'd probably stop photographing. > > Isn't that a little drastic, Doug? You strike me as someone who would > make images regardless of the medium available. You didn't quit when > Kodachrome began to go extinct. I truly believe that the desire to > make images is stronger than any particular film, or even film itself. > > I've pondered what I would do if Tri-X disappeared next year. First I > would yell and scream and post long-winded laments to the LUG. > Probably get into several argument over the supposedly infallible > wisdom of the mass marketplace. And then I'd find another film. > Neopan 400 is good. Some even prefer it to Tri-X. BW400CN is very > nice for many purposes. And maybe somebody will make a decent film > I'll have to order in Polish or Ukrainian. > > If all film disappears, perhaps by then digital will have gotten a > notch or two better. The cameras smaller and lighter. The dynamic > range and noise problems mitigated by some as yet unfulfilled > technology. And the digital market will mature at some point. They > won't be able to sell digital cameras as they do now. "It's new, it's > cool, it's convenient, it's good enough" won't be good enough any > more. Camera design will have to become driven more by intended > usage, and less by hype and ground-floor market share capture. > > What I'm getting at is that sometimes we see things going to hell in a > handbasket because we live in a volatile time. A new technology seems > to be replacing an older one before the newer one is truly ready--for > our purposes at least. But we forget that not every product has to > sell to everybody in the world to be viable. So maybe the old stuff > won't go away completely. And the new stuff has lots of potential > that will come in time. > > Yes, if my favorite films went away I would scream bloody murder. But > I wouldn't stop photographing. I don't think you would, either. > You'd find a way, the same way you found the tools that are perfect > for you now. > > --Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information