Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/13

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Hasselbald XPAN II
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Fri Jan 13 09:49:36 2006
 
"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.
> 

There weren't herds of people using glass plates.  The herd mentality 
applied to the mass market and glass-plate photography was never part of the 
mass market.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com