Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Consumers shoot digital because of the instant feedback and ease to upload to a computer. Interesting, that the desire for prints continues to decline as folks are content just to email and save images on their computers. Bob H. --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote: > Suggesting that people are primarily shooting > digital because of the 'herd' > mentality, is a bit like suggesting that people gave > up glass plates and > moved on to film because of the 'herd' mentality. > > > On 1/13/06 10:42 AM, "Luis Miguel Casta?eda" > <lmc@interlink.es> wrote: > > > > > On 13/01/2006, at 15:06, Don Dory wrote: > > > >> Luis, > >> No, the herd mentality has set in. [...] > >> For the heavy shooter obviously the economics > change pretty quickly. > > > > well, I was joking in part, but your comment > pointed some interesting > > facts. > > > > a) People don't want the best thing for them, they > just want what > > their neighbourg already has. > > b) People don't ask caring your advice, they only > want to hear what > > they are lusting for. > > c) If you dont know what to say, say new. > > > > Recently I was shooting polaroid for fun. It was > the spectra film, > > well balancend color and quite sharp. Someone came > around saying that > > polaroids looked fine but they are very expensive. > After a bit of > > chat I knew that he bought a $300 digicam (his > second one), $100 on > > gadgets, $200 on a little printer and upgraded his > computer ($900) to > > have it all working. He spent $1500 before the > first shot but he was > > pretending that he was shooting for free. I got my > last polaroid for > > $1 on a eb*y auction plus $8 for shipping, paid > about $10 for film, > > still $1481 on my pocket left to shot, so I will > have nearly 1500 > > prints before getting where he was starting and > without counting > > paper etc for the printer. So we have to define > what's expensive. > > > > Obviously this tale can be reversed easily, and it > should be, > > depending of needs. I wont shoot nothing else than > digital if I was > > working for daily media. > > > > About heavy shooters... the old myth/fact that > said that as more you > > shoot, you will become a better photog has settled > well, but they > > forget that when you can preview instantly what > you're doing it does > > not have sense to soot more. If there is no time > to fix and > > understand the how and why no matter how many > shoots you make, unless > > they have fun with it, nothing photographic in it. > :) > > > > > > > > > > Saludos > > ----------------------------------------- > > http://imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug > for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com