Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/23

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Subject: [Leica] enough with Olympus DSLR postings PLEASE
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Thu Mar 23 06:50:51 2006
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B.D.

I have been trying to stay out of this but...

> 
> Don't blame 'digital' for the death of photography, 

Photography won't die, not while there are good photographers around - 
including 
LUGers.

blame those companies
> and practitioners who insisted that digital was some weird and amusing 
> passing fad (something you could regularly read on this list, certainly 
> within the last 18 months.)

As to "fad", we know that no digicam has a shelf life of more than 6 months 
including Digital Ms. The question that we have to answer is whether or not 
there is another technology around the corner; we simply don't know, it may 
well 
be a fad in that sense. Remember video cassettes and digital video cameras  
and 
reel-to-reel...

Peter Dzwig



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