Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jordan Wosnick 
<jwosnick@f...> wrote:

> 
> Don't get too attached to Scala! Given Agfa's recent demise, I 
> wouldn't expect it to be available for too much longer.
>
And don't get too attached to any one digital camera, lens, 
computer, ink, paper, color film, temperature in a day, clouds in 
the sky...ect.

What kind of a comment is that?  I'm sorry.  I don't mean to sound 
harsh or sarcastic (well maybe a little).  But in this day in age 
does someone really need to be told not to get too attached to any 
one form of shooting photographs when the field of photography is 
changing at a rapid pace.  It is available today, if Scala works for 
him today, then I say shoot the heck out of it and produce great 
images!  Isn't that what it is all about?  Not looking over your 
shoulder to see when your favorite film will be "no longer 
availabe."  I am kind of sick and tired of everyone who is shooting 
digital saying "another film bites the dust" and "soon you will have 
to switch to digital because there will be no b&w film left."  If 
anybody who made such comments understood simple economics they 
would understand that as long as there is a market for something, it 
WILL be produced....by someone.  Examples: record players.  When was 
the last time you listen to a record on a record player?  But you 
can still buy record players and records.  Why, because there is a 
market for them somewhere.  The point is, if people always tried to 
stay on the cusp of the next technological breakthrough, then we 
would have no more oil painters, no more charcoal drawings, no more 
wood carvers....and that would be a very drab and sad world.  If 
scala disappears then he'll find another source because there will 
always be another source.  He might have to pay more.  He might have 
to buy it from Timbuktu, but there will be a source for a similar 
product.  Why?   Because he is not the only one who likes and shoots 
Scala.  Just my thoughts.  Thanks for letting me get that off my 
chest.  Now back to scanning, e-mailing, and watching Gladiator on 
DVD. :-)