jrp Posted March 28, 2016 Share #1 Posted March 28, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) http://blog.leica-camera.com/2016/03/28/constant-change/ signal to noise ration fairly low, but worth skimming Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 28, 2016 Posted March 28, 2016 Hi jrp, Take a look here Chief exec interview.. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
stephen j Posted March 29, 2016 Share #2 Posted March 29, 2016 An interesting interview in as much as nothing was said... One thing that needs to be clarified though is that without film, there will be no archive of these times for future generations. History will truly be written by the victors, by the corporate governments and businesses. I fear that the real lives of ordinary folk will be lost in ones and noughts, and crushed in anonymous scrap yards. What we have today in the form of digital diarrhoea, will be flushed away like so much else of our materialist generations. What we need from Leica, is an up to date way of digitising our negatives, so that we can play with our computerised images, whilst retaining our film archive. George Eastman is 162. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted March 29, 2016 Share #3 Posted March 29, 2016 An interesting interview in as much as nothing was said... I don't agree that nothing was said, but that might depend on your expectations. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen j Posted March 29, 2016 Share #4 Posted March 29, 2016 (edited) OK, sorry... Nothing meaningful. Much corporate speak was made of how proud he was of his associates and workers, how much the company was going to be pro-active going forward, how new cameras were competing well in the market place, how the 'M' was unique and was always going to be around... etc. etc.. He made repeated comments about digitisation. Go back to before Mr. Eastman and look at what we have left... A few paintings of very rich people and their families. A few books on the history of our kings, queens and politicians... And only clues about ordinary folk, in the form of pots and pans and the foundations of our little houses. The twentieth century, on the other hand is a rich tapestry of documentation, the typewriter and the camera brought these things, and they have now been usurped by the ones and noughts of computer hard disks, which will soon be melted down and disappeared. We have already witnessed the decay and consequent disappearance of analogue video tape. In a piece that I have just read about photographer Anton Corbijn, it is pointed out that six billion images are posted to the internet each month... Here today, gone tomorrow... Just like that interview. Edited March 29, 2016 by stephen j Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted March 29, 2016 Share #5 Posted March 29, 2016 What has the digital void to do with Oliver Kaltner's interview, though? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen j Posted March 29, 2016 Share #6 Posted March 29, 2016 In the first paragraph of the interview Mr. Kaltner talks about jumping into the digital void with both feet... And then the interview continues to make reference to analogue in the past tense and digital in the present and future tense... Other than that... Nothing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted March 29, 2016 Share #7 Posted March 29, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Leica seems to be the only manufacturer which still makes and sells RF film cameras and even launched a new variant of the existing product. They don't make the market, though. I'd rather have a growing manufacturer which makes among other things film cameras than a defunct one which used to do so. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen j Posted March 29, 2016 Share #8 Posted March 29, 2016 Leica seems to be the only manufacturer which still makes and sells RF film cameras and even launched a new variant of the existing product. They don't make the market, though. I'd rather have a growing manufacturer which makes among other things film cameras than a defunct one which used to do so. It seems that you think I am criticising... I am not... I am just wishing... Perhaps a forlorn wish... For more analogue... As I said in my opening comment... A scanner perhaps? Leica are (as you point out) just about the only manufacturer that are standing by film... In order to encourage more people back to film, they need to be able to play with their film on their computers! As things currently stand, there is Imacon/Hasselblad... and there is not much else... There are flatbeds and there is second user Nikon and Minolta, with XP or Leopard... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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