Bob Sullivan wrote:
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.
The article says that the above scenario was not the case. Engineers
were working on digital solutions (did I write that out loud?) in the
early 90s. There was a takeover, the research was scrapped and the
considerable financial resources disappeared. Amoral bandits.
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM, mike wilson <[email protected]> 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.
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