Even if 35mm film is still available in 30 years, I wonder if many plastic lumps of auto-cameras from today will still be around and kicking, with all those little motors and all the electronics in them? Once the manufacturers stop making parts available, they're going to be a bear to fix.
OTOH, I've three Spots, a Yashica Mat, a Yashica Electro 35, not to mention my MX (almost 30!) and my Leica CL (which, admittedly is broken, but even if the meter can't be repaired, it is capable of taking pics without). That's a lot of old cameras still working, and still being repaired. cheers, frank Peter Alling wrote: > I was never in love with manual typewriters I found it extremely easy to adopt > to digital in that respect. (I do have one kicking around here however). > > At 01:04 PM 1/31/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >Even with the best new AF gear available to me, there's something > >unaccountably appealling about an all-metal body, the snick of the mechanical > >shutter, the heft of the manual lens, and a roll of Tri-X. That's why I > >kept my > >Pentax MF gear when I jumped ship to Canon for IS for much of my shooting. > >And I go back and forth easily between the two systems. Why? Maybe because > >that's how I remember shooting when I was a teenager. > > > >Perhaps if I were 15 today instead of 51 I'd be building up a future > >allegiance to > >film-based Canon EOS, so that in 30 years -- when digital will have > >eliminated > >film from all but a handful of museums -- I'd look back fondly, and a > >little stodgily, > >on the smooth whir of the Canon film drive, the hum of the IS, and the quick > >focus of the lens. > > > >And then there's manual typewriters.... > > > >BK > > > >-- > >Bob Keefer > > > >Keefer Photography > >www.bkpix.com > > Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. > Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
