according to the Photo Marketing Association, SLR sales held steady, total film camera sales dropped 31%, and compact digital camera sales were up by 25%. people who buy Leica's or medium format and larger represent such a miniscule portion of the market that what they do or don't do is nearly irrelevant to affecting trends. many of the warzone pictures and video from Iraq were in fact done with digital cameras with satellite radios and solar chargers.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 14:56 Subject: SV: Leica R9/R8 digital back > At the momnet, the only futuristic thing about digital photograohy is a > "new" point & shoot market - people who didn't like P&S cameras buy diggies > because it's easy, cheap to use and you can redo or delete bad shots at > once - and it HIP - and of course PJ's like it. They are in ahurry all the > time. When the digies reach 20-40 MP and much better battery economy, > storing abilities etc. then you have "the digital future" comming. Untill > then Leicas are still very durable and reliable cameras and the lenses are > superb. Who would want to be in a thunderstorm, in a war zone or on a > mountain for days with just a diggie, batteries, flash cards and a portable > CD writer, a car battery and lot of CD's?
