Companies have an institutional memory and like to do what they know how to do well. A major technological innovation can mean major dislocations. Suddenly that expensive Swiss timepiece is bested by a $6 chip watch from Texas Instruments. Mechanical time pieces became an anachronism. So too with film cameras... Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Keith Whaley wrote: > >> Derby Chang wrote: >> >>> >>> A really fascinating essay on LL today. >>> >>> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/rise-fall.shtml >>> >>> >> >> Well worth a read by anyone seriously interested in understanding more >> about the turning point between film and digital use. >> >> I thought I had a reasonable understanding of it, until I read this >> article! >> Well written and (until something better comes along) pretty much a short >> but seminal revelation on how it all came about. >> >> Thanks, Derby... >> >> keith whaley > > I saw it as more a description of the gross mismanagement, followed by the > financial rape and eventual (at least partial/temporary) salvation of a > world class camera company. It has less to do with the change from film to > sensor than it has to do with asset stripping and feckless, ignorant, > self-centred little toads. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
