Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/03

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Subject: [Leica] 2010 Yearbook & Kodachrome
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 12:45:31 -0600 (CST)

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010  kyle cassidy on the LUG <leicaslacker at gmail.com> 
wrote:

>Some time in ... 1999 or 2000 I photographed an unexpected and somewhat 
>volatile interchange between two mayoral candidates. Realizing that I had 
>something special, I dropped the rest of the day, rushed home, processed 
>the film made a fast print and >called the local paper and was told by the 
>city desk that they'd already gone to press with a digital image someone 
>got in an hour before me. I realized that day that film was over in terms 
>of news photography because the guy with the digital shot was always >going 
>to get there before you and he'd be off at the next assignment beating you 
>again while you were developing. It's only going to get faster with 
>wireless SD cards sending everything back to the mother ship while the 
>event's going on.... 
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Speed rules my work week, so when photographing for myself, I consider it an 
exquisite luxury that I can take my own sweet time between exposure, 
development and viewing.  ;~)

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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