: karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: : : ...Camera manufacturers and photographers should not become bystanders in : all : this. : : : Is this to mean I should run out and buy my new Hasselblad mobile? I heard they're a little clunky to carry around in your pocket :) no, is the article that unclear? My reading suggested much the same as my own earlier warning a few weeks prior to this article being written, that if pros and consumers *don't* stick with film and support the medium (and the cameras that go with it) then the warning presented in one of the oldest and most respected journals of photography may come to pass and there may be nothing else BUT mobiles to shoot with ..unless you can afford to pay top dollar for elite items. BTW, I had a very early seimens 16mm cine camera given to me some time back in pristine condition which I sold to a fellow in Germany. His main interest was the accompanying sales docket from the original owners purchase. - we worked out that the camera cost the equivalent of 2 years wages in it's day. Of course by the 60's an 8mm cost relatively little because consumers were buying them in droves, but when a mere handful of cameras were made... specialist items don't come cheap. k
