Partly it because as a society we are rich enough to keep things going for more than purely utilitarian purposes. Since most of photography was always a luxury I don't think it will change.
John Sessoms wrote: > From: > Mark Cassino > >> William Robb wrote: >> >> >>> You'all just don't seem to be getting it. >>> >> OK - so when a superior technology comes along, the old technology >> dies off and is gone completely. >> >> Like horse drawn buggies (replaced by automobiles): >> >> http://www.liveryone.net/ >> >> Bows and arrows (replaced by guns): >> >> http://www.huntersfriend.com/2007-Bow-Reviews/bow-specifications-charts-main.htm >> >> >> >> Hand woven fabric replaced by mass produced material: >> >> http://www.camillavalleyfarm.com/other/weavingguilds.htm >> >> Flint and steel (replaced by matches): >> >> http://www.survivalschool.com/products/fire_starting/Flint_&_Steel%20Kits.htm >> >> >> >> Oil lamps were replaced by candles which were replace by gas light >> which were replaced by electric light. (Good thing since oil lamps are >> a 10,000 year old technology.) >> >> http://www.oillampman.com/ >> >> Books, movies, and radio - replaced by TV: >> >> Oh shoot, I guess the Internet has killed off all those plus TV... >> >> Folks don't ride horses to work any more (after all, its a 6,000 year >> old technology). But I schlepped by the KKK rally held in downtown >> Kalamazoo yesterday - and there were a couple dozen cops on horseback >> working the crowd. So the practical application of horses has not gone >> away. >> >> No one expects film to play the same role that it played in 1975. In >> the near future it will not be a mainstream technology. People who >> don't see an advantage to it, or who don't have the time, knowledge, >> or resources to utilize it - won't use it. People won't be able to pop >> by the local drug store and get film developed. But that's not the >> same as it being gone completely, totally, eradicated. >> >> Advancing technology limits old technology, makes it more expensive, >> drives it into specialized niches, but there is little historical >> evidence to suggest that old technologies die off and are eradicated, >> unless you start dealing in minutia like beta video tapes, cylinder >> records, 8 track tapes, etc - which are not really categories of >> technologies but rather very limited applications of them. That's >> sort of like saying that steam powered locomotives disappeared so, of >> course, all railroads have gone. >> >> Some form of film will last forever. Or least least as long as flint >> and steel, oil lamps, and horses. And just as we once lived in a >> society were everyone saw horses first hand every day, and now they >> are a rarity, film will become a rarity. But it won't disappear. >> >> Cripes - there are still people taking daguerreotypes these days, >> mercury poisoning or no... >> > > Well said. > > Steam powered locomotives haven't disappeared entirely, mostly just > removed to tourist railroads, where they're enjoying a revival of sorts > - at least it seems there are more working steam lines today than there > were 10 years ago. Maybe they were there all along, and the inter-net > just makes it easier for me to find them. > > And there's a guy down the road apiece from here who's making a good > living doing wet plate colloidian photography. > > -- cognoscenti: "Those who know" cognesnotty: The stringy material that forms in the nasal passages of "Those who know." -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
