Yes, I also have two Automatic Longines bought in 1993 and 1997, but I
mainly wear a Seiko Kinetic. Some people treat watch as jewel but some
people just use it for checking time and some for both. But a good digital
watch doesn't give much benefit in function compared to mechanical watches,
extreme timing accuracy is not important to most of us.
On the other hand a digital camera do give us the convenient, cost saving in
film and in future equal or better than film in quality. For taking photos,
the end result is an image, a picture on print or slide. People will admire
a good photo and few like us will also admire about the equipment in behind.
When the time came, my OMs will be just putting in the humidity controlled
chamber and serve as collecting items. And I'm sure our OM will be much
collectable than the AF bricks. May be on some special event, we will take
our OMs out for showing, but only if we can still get film to use with them.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Acer V" <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
> >I'm wearing a 1962 Omega Seamaster which I love despite its
idiosyncracies
> >- automatic but otherwise utterly traditional. My point is that a ten
> >dollar digital watch is more accurate than the most expensive mechanical
> >watch (analogue - ugh!) ever made. But accuracy was not enough. Nowadays,
> >around me, children wear flashy, throwaway digitals and serious people
buy
> >'name' mechanicals. Very noticeable in a school.
> >Andrew
>
> good taste! myself am partial to the speedy (far from being to afford one
> but that's another story for another time)
>
> >>Yes, but how many of you wearing quartz watch with analogue display
> >>and how many wear the automatic one? If digital can give film quality
> >>will you go back to shoot film?
>
> it's much more than just the result (for me anyway, and i suspect for
> also some of the listies)...but also the path taken. there's the
> aesthetics of holding something made with solid metal, chromed or nickled,
> with real leather, hearing and feeling the gears whirr and each clickstop
> snap crisply. similar analogy to the wet darkroom (b/w)...i shunned it
> till i got in there myself and saw the image "appear" slowly out of a
> blank piece of paper. ditto classic cars, classic audio gear, classic
> watches, etc etc.
>
> /Acer V
> --
> dum spiro, spero
> http://student.ucr.edu/~siddim01
>
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