Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah, And for Christmas this past year I went through a bunch of slides my dad shot when we were all kids, I made slide shows for the rest of the family. What about when her kid is grown, is he going to have that little point and shoot and a 42 inch TV to look at those photos on...I doubt it. Just like everything else in todays world photos are temporary. If I make digital photos of family I try my best to get the best printed to at least 4x6 so there is a hard copy. I still shoot a lot of my family stuff with film. Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > > > I attended a family reunion in a suburb of Rochester last weekend. A > niece asked me if I would like to look to look at pictures of her new > baby. What could I do but agree? She pulled her digital camera out of > her purse and treated me to a couple of dozen pictures displayed on > the 2.5" LCD screen. No prints, just screen images. She saves the > images directly to her computer and if she wants to see them enlarged, > connects the laptop to her 42" plasma TV. > > Ironically, her husband is a Kodak executive. Later that evening, he > told me that Kodak's research showed that more pictures are being > taken than ever before but 95% of them are never actualized in hard > copy form. He admitted that this was another one of Kodak's wrong > guesses about the future of photography. Kodak hoped to compensate for > reduced film sales by increased sales of photofinishing paper and > supplies and do-it-yourself kiosks in drugstores and supermarkets. > > I felt really out of place with my Leica IIIf hanging around my neck. -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://www.mcclary.net/blog