And why should she care? Teach DIN instead of ASA. That 1.5x crap is, well, crap for the ignorant.
As long as it is available there will be people doing at least B&W film, just as there are people who love owning and working on old cars. As for color, digital was pretty much inevitable once it became the mainstream. Seems strange that I was the one telling folks here that digital was the future not all that long ago, now I am one of the ones telling people that film is not quite dead yet! As for not understanding old tech, how many here know how to sharpen a quill pen? Or even have used a fountain pen for that matter.? Does that keep you from typing on your computer keyboard? No, I guess not. However there are people who for artistic reasons still use fountain pens, and even quill pens. So there are people who still use film, and will continue to. However, I guess they do not have to justify spending all that money on the new. BTW, I hate those wide screen shiny monitors, but expect that they are going to be the only thing available in the near future, CRT monitors will be gone long before film is. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- syb vis wrote: > However, this causes in the end a new problem. New students will no > longer understand much of the old-days-language which has been > transferred to the modern digital technology. My daughter (now two > years old) will ask me later why the sensitivity of the camera should > be set on 100-200-400-800-1600-3200. Why not 1-2-3-4-5-6? > Why are all those lenses' focal distances to be multiplied by 1.5? Why > don't we call a lens that gives 75mm of focal distance on a DSLR, > simply ''75mm''? > But then, hey! Hasn't there always been a miscommunication between the > generations? > Little of a comfort to me, though... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
