I guess the word "luddite" comes from the time, when workers attacked the factories because new mashinery was about to "take away" their jobs. Hesitating to convert to new technologies (like CCD's or CMOS insted of film) is something different. The digital images won't take away the jobs of the photographers. It will/already have made some lab workers redundant. One of todays problems with technology is that it eveloves too fast. Cellular phones is a good example. Who realy neds all this MMS, colour screens, vidocamera, still camera, PDA facilities etc. ? Most people just need a phone and perhaps SMS'es. The environmental cost of everybody getting a new phone every year is enormous. Most people buy digiatal cameras without realizing why they want it. If you want 4x6 print for your family album (that's what most people want), thers no reason to go digital. I believe history will remember our generation as the generation that didn't leave any photographs for the next generatoin. They will die as fast as the harddrives, CD's and servers within which they only exist for a few years, perhaps as much as a decade. Then they'll be lost forever.
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 16. maj 2005 15:32 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: Leica digital back no longer vapourware On 5/16/05, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's funny, I've been accused by the Lawyer for my Great Grandfathers > trust of being a Luddite > for not having a cell phone. I on the other hand value privacy, which > is the best reason not to have > such a device, if I had one I'd never be alone, (which for some people > must be the next thing to being dead). The term Luddite has been misused quite a bit. I don't think that it should apply to someone who simply chooses not to use a newer technology. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
