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[OM] Re: Oh, Digital, Wherefore Art Thou?

Subject: [OM] Re: Oh, Digital, Wherefore Art Thou?
From: "Wayne Culberson" <waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:31:18 -0300

>I sold most of my Oly stuff
> with a good deal of nostalgia for a wonderful film camera and an
> ergonomic wonder. But photography has moved on, at least in my opinion,
> and I don't want to be one of those old guys mired in the past because
> he is too lazy to move ahead with the technology of his hobby.

> Winsor
> Long Beach, California
> USA

Okay, but I guess I've missed the main purpose of this list for the last 3
years or so since I joined. I had thought it wasn't so much about the hobby
of photography per se, as it was mostly about older guys with a nostalgia
for past technology, having the common hobby of shooting and collecting
outdated OM slr's, some of whom seemed to be shunning, by choice and perhaps
other considerations, the advancing technology of slr wunderbricks. :-)
Surely digital photography, like wunderbricks, should be able to win its own
converts on its own merits and advantages, without such coersive language as
"those old guys mired in the past... too lazy to move ahead with the
technology of his hobby." :-)
Yes, digital has advantages, and delivers excellent picture quality, if you
want only color prints. But if picture quality were the ultimate objective,
without regard to nostalgia, or equipment, or several other considerations,
then would the Olympus list ever have existed, as we all would have moved at
least to medium format quite some time ago?
Me thinks thou protesteth too much :-)


Wayne (who forced himself to use his C5050 all day yesterday, and who had
fun with it, but missed a couple nice slide pics :-)
(and who also has a loaned-out slide presentation being shown at some church
locations around eastern Canada; all of which were shot last February with
outdated Olympus stuff)


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