I'm late coming to this discussion (I was on vacation and the "vacation"
command to the server didn't work due to some sort of syntax problem), but time
alone is not necessarily "wasted"... seems to be a frequent fallacy of western
culture, don't know about others. I quite like the interludes of solitude that
allow me to process more than film...
Earl
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On 7/22/2004 at 8:02 PM Michael Darling wrote:
>On 7/22/04 6:59 PM, "Doug" <dhsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I've often wondered if the decline of film has been accelerated as a
>result of
>> 9/11 and the increased security hassles that go with it. If someone
>thinks
>> their pictures are a risk from xray or whatever, that may be just enough
>> reason to move to digital, where they might have waited 5 years
>otherwise.
>
>Doubtful. Average camera carrying travelers are either ignorant to the
>so-called "dangers" of luggage scanners (until they read the signs), or are
>like us and overly paranoid about them already. Seems to be my experience,
>anyway.
>
>Digital just appeals to people on so many levels that film never could. All
>us geeks love waiting for film to come back from the lab, or watching a
>print come to life in the darkroom. The digital hordes may never experience
>that, but when I think about all my time wasted alone in a dark room
>watching seconds click away from my life, I constantly question why I keep
>going back.
>
>-mike
>
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