[Leica] Re: Vanishing darkroom supplies

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Larry,

It may be worse then that. One of my son's older friends was given a  
Nikon D50 when his old Pentax bit the dust. He only looks at the  
photos on the little camera LCD. When the card finally gets full of  
images, he just buys a new card.

Len




On May 3, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

>
> On May 2, 2007, at 10:13 PM, Jeffrey wrote:
>
>>> On Tuesday I drove to "Lakeside Camera", one of the larger  
>>> photographic supply stores in the metropolitan area. They no longer
>>> stock darkroom supplies.
>>>
>>> The ship appears to be pulling away from the dock.....
>>> --
>
>
> I attended a family reunion in a suburb of Rochester last weekend.  
> A niece asked me if I would like to look to look at pictures of her  
> new baby. What could I do but agree? She pulled her digital camera  
> out of her purse and treated me to a couple of dozen pictures  
> displayed on the 2.5" LCD screen. No prints, just screen images.  
> She saves the images directly to her computer and if she wants to  
> see them enlarged, connects the laptop to her 42" plasma TV.
>
> Ironically, her husband is a Kodak executive. Later that evening,  
> he told me that Kodak's research showed that more pictures are  
> being taken than ever before but 95% of them are never actualized  
> in hard copy form. He admitted that this was another one of Kodak's  
> wrong guesses about the future of photography. Kodak hoped to  
> compensate for reduced film sales by increased sales of  
> photofinishing paper and supplies and do-it-yourself kiosks in  
> drugstores and supermarkets.
>
> I felt really out of place with my Leica IIIf hanging around my neck.
>
> Larry Z
>
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