Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh please, Peter. Get a grip. Whether or not this technology will morph into another, even better capture technology, film is now the 'former' technology - even if some prefer to keep using it - and it's been evident for at least a decade to anyone with open eyes that it was going to become 'former.' As to current cameras having a six month shelf-life, saying that is about as silly as saying that film is going to come back and supplant digital as the dominant technology. Today's digital cameras only have a six month shelf-life for those people who are far more interested in having others see what's hanging around their neck than they are in what they do with that object. ;-) On 3/23/06 9:50 AM, "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information