Dear friends, mine are only considerations and I absolutely do not want to overwhelm, everyone is free to devote himself to what he deems most appropriate.
My approach to photography, many years ago, was through film and I was one of those who was most saddened by the advent of digital.
Leaving my faithful LX made me cringe, but today looking at my slides and my prints of that time, I realize the profound difference in quality
that exists between those photos and the current ones. Resolution, detail, portability, exchange, post-production processing are priceless details
that analogue photography will never give us back. We can discuss vinyl records and CDs, but the mechanical limit deriving from a needle that slides inside microgrooves,
and I won't go into detail here, will always give vinyl the loser over the CD. A tube amp, and I'm a musician, I know something about it, gives you a warm sound,
but the drawbacks of using it are considerable, from the delicacy of the tubes in transport, to the background noise generated, from the high operating temperatures,
to the time necessary to go to a good regime and finally to the electrical absorption; they are not inconveniences to be overlooked. Think of a Rolling Stones service with tube amps.
Try using a new digital mixer and compare it to an analog one from thirty years ago; unthinkable. Of course, in digital audio we have to deal with a sampling taken during the recording phase,
it's a big deterrent, but I much prefer it. In terms of professional photography, the advent of digital has simplified everything; I send a 10 GB file with photos of the basketball match
to the editor of a magazine and after three minutes the photos are on his desk. I remember that when I shot with Kodachrome my rolls went to Stuttgart and I saw them again
after twenty days: do you think this is normal, compared to what we have today? Returning to film means questioning everything for the next ten years, the ones it took t
o bring vinyl back into play. The same goes for the film; reorganize all the development and printing chains, laboratories, shipping, reorganization of film and paper production,
Kodak is no more. Are you ready to face all this? Are you more willing to wait and respect times that no longer belong to us? An advantage from all this, and it is certain,
would be the increase in productivity in some sectors, with a consequent increase in employment, which is not a small thing, but I don't know if all this pays off in the end.
Do we want to use digital and analog together? Well, let's do it, but remember that there are responsibilities on the part of a manufacturer, who has made a commitment
to his customers to supply a product, in our case the K1, which has never been renewed. This is a lack of respect for those consumers who see their expectations thus betrayed.
