[LRflex] Re: Film vs Digital users poll

Y'all
95% Kodachrome in the SL and R8s; 5% color or b&w in the same bodies.
I do have a li'l digi p&s for ebay, etc, but that doesn't qualify it for 
"picture takin''
GaryP





>From: LEICAFLEX <leicaflex@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [LRflex] Film vs Digital users poll
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:33:48 -0700
>
>Hi David:  Thanks for running the poll of member countries.  Just a
>thought here - it may be interesting if this List would run another
>poll to ask the members their current %film vs %digital usage, and
>maybe they will state their camera types.  This thought was
>precipitated by this news blurb:
>
>"Last year, Americans sent 11.8 billion photos via email, compared
>with 2.6 billion in 2000. By 2009, this number is projected to grow
>22%, to 25.7 billion pictures, according to IDC, an Internet
>technology research firm."
>
>I can see people shooting film who cannot afford the DMR Back but wish
>to utilize the stellar qualities of the Leica lens line-up.  On the
>other hand, many people use digital point-n-shoots as secondary
>cameras for family gatherings and other spontaneous social or street
>photography situations.
>
>In my humble experience, I shoot film (35mm+120/220) when I want to
>get the best out of my equipment, and digital when I want to document
>technical/medical subject matter quickly for work, and when my family
>+ friends get together and we want to share pictures online.  Sadly, I
>do less of the former than the latter, which in my mind is "real"
>photography.  My own percentages are 65%-70% digital, 20-25% 35mm film
>and 10-15% medium format.  For 35mm I shoot only Leica/Rollei.  For
>digital I like the Fuji S1 Pro even tho' it has a low pixel count -
>good enough for work-related documentation and insertion into
>Microsoft WORD doc's. One fine day when - money flows from heaven upon
>the plane beneath - I will get into the digital CanoLeica lens
>paradigm. (BTW - I stopped playing with the cell phone's digital
>camera - at VGA quality, it still best left for teenagers living in
>their eternally youthful world.  However this will change rapidly in
>the next few years. I hear  SONY ERICSSON already has a 3 MP camera
>with a Carl Zeiss lens!
>
>~ Eric Chan in Silicon Valley
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