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[OM] Re: Digital, digital, digital. Bah, humbug!

Subject: [OM] Re: Digital, digital, digital. Bah, humbug!
From: Martin Flink <mgflink@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:15:55 -0700
Walt,

You are a classic!

Martin


On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:41 AM, Walt Wayman wrote:

> Maybe it's just today, but with the overload of digital posts, I feel 
> myself fading away, particularly now that I have at last come to 
> understand why the whole digital thing just doesn't really tickle my 
> fancy and why, last month, for about the same money, an old Mamiya 
> RB67 Pro-S and a gaggle of lenses, et al., interested me much more 
> than a new Olympus E-1 and a cluster of its glass.  It's really quite 
> simple, and I am mystified and a little ashamed that I hadn't figured 
> it out sooner.
>
> I feel much better now that it's all clear to me and I understand why 
> I'm doing what I'm doing.  Maybe I'll be a good old soldier and 
> explain it all before I pull a McArthur and fade away completely.  Not 
> being confused and conflicted anymore, I'm enjoying doing what I'm 
> doing, which is exactly what I've been doing for years, even more than 
> before, when, for a while, I didn't understand why I was still doing 
> what I had been doing when other people who had been doing what I was 
> doing were suddenly doing something different.
>
> Bottom line: none of us are wrong.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> "Anything more than 100 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic if
> toting the whole Mamiya outfit." --
> Walt Wayman
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