Is the NY Times as well as Leica behind the times???

[bill_thorlin]

An irrelevant comment from a member of an irrelevant country. The lovable face of the USA has spoken.

[john_spiers]

Trevor, your explanation is absolutely on the button.

 

It's absurd to think that the NYT is making any point in the film/digital debate just because they used a pic of a TLR.

 

John

[jonathan_reynolds]

I think Trevor was right too, but he should have used <a href="http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign162.htm">this</a> example.

[brunom]

I didn't realise that the UK had its own set of road signs, I thought they were fairly universal?

 

Bruno

[socke]

<irony>

I think it's a con to get the US legislators to ban all photographic inventions after 1950.

Terrorists won't use ISO25 single layer black and white emulsions in a meterless LTM type camera, would they?

</irony>

[wayne_murphy8]

I doubt that I have ever read a more pointless thread. Don't you all have

better things to do? Get a life. Bah, humbug. Oh sorry, have a nice day

anyway.

[john_boyle3]

Trevor, do they still use steam engines in England?

[socke]

Oskar, given suficient thrust pigs fly just fine, but you never know where they land and you don't want to be under them :-)

[socke]

John, don't know about England but a friend of mine makes a living building steam engines in germany.<br>

<br>

<a href="http://www.dampfmaschine.com/index_e.html">Tea Light Steam Engine</a>

[bob_lazzarini]

Helen Bach,<p>

<i>And here is the UK traffic sign for an "Area in which cameras are used to enforce traffic regulations".</i><p>

Drat!<br>

When I was in Scotland recently, I thought these were indicators for tourists as to where photo opportunities existed! :-P<p>

[jonathan_reynolds]

John: This is a country in which road atlases still show Roman place-names. Only recently (1972) did we drop the abbreviation d. (=denarius) for penny. So OF COURSE we still use steam engines! See <a href="http://www.swanagerailway.co.uk/">here</a> and

<a href="http://www.steam-fair.co.uk/">here</a>, for instance. These are just two in my region.

[steve_mcallister]

>If I got sent on an assignment to take a picture of a photo student, and three showed up, two of them wearing Nikon/Canon/Leica(!) digital SLRs and one with a nifty looking TLR around her neck, guess who I'd use the most pixels on.<

 

The hottest lookin one I'd hope, but then this here's the Leica forum an you all get off on cameras.

[dennis_couvillion]

Claudia:

 

I'm sure some would say that in a sinsiter way the editorial decision of the New York Times to run a picture of a tired, out-dated, non-mainstream and elitist form of making pictures reflects its liberal bias. ;>)

 

Dennis

[bill_thorlin]

Steam engines - of course we use steam engines, how else do we get the power to run the abacus and the (steam) radio ? (It is rumoured that in the outlying regions some still use a donkey and a treadmill)

[jonathan_reynolds]

This is the Leica forum, so we are all technologically conservative, right? A donkey and treadmill is Appropriate Technology if it works and the donkey is content.

[dennis_couvillion]

Bill:

 

Every summer purists, like myself, travel to eastern Kentucky for a few weeks of vacation and strip mining where we stock up on our coal supply for the entire year. ;>)

 

Dennis

[fivetonsflax]

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[bill_thorlin]

Coal ! It is still wood-burning technology for me - at least I can use the ash for the fruit trees so there is some re-cycling. Come to think of it the donkey might be good in this respect so may go retro.

[sammer]

There's a cloud outside my window that looks like an EOS 20D...

[terry_rory]

John you asked if they still use steam engines? Yes they do in a few places. This one I was on a few days ago is a scheduled service (once every 40mins all day and all evening, all year) for local commuters and shoppers as well as tourists....<div></div>

[dan flanders]

I have read the NYT regularly for the past thirty or so years and am fully convinced that anything they print has an angle to it.

[ray .]

Makes sense to me. Better to make a picture <i>of</i> a TLR

than try to take a picture <i>with</i> one.

[jtdnyc]

Given that the New York Daily News uses a picture of an old-time press camera as its logo, the Times's use of a TLR is downright avant garde.

[OCULUS New York]

I suspect that they had no idea what they were representing.

 

For a couple of years, I had on my office wall a digital photo of an Amtrak train that appeared across about 5 columns on the front page of the Metro section.

 

It was the worst published photo I have ever seen: Literally, it looked like needlepoint.

 

Then they went to that blurred action-style digi print for while, and they retired that.

 

So, to expect that they would feature a Leica is folly. In sum, in my estimation, they haven't a clue, but they sure do have a bias.

 

Cheers,

Ray Hull

[msitaraman]

That photograph looks like it could have been taken anytime in the last 100 years...Proof, if proof is needed, that there will always be an England.:-)

 

Hurrah for England!

 

(writing in NYC)