Re: The digital fad?

[Ryan Charron]

Hi Everyone, 

So I got out my dictionary:

fad (f²d) n. A fashion that is taken up with great
enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.
--fad“dism n. --fad“dist n. --fad“dy adj.

Does anyone really think digital photography and DSLRs
are going to be around for only a brief period of
time? Then it's no fad, sorry.

A Fellow Pentaxian,
Ryan

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Re: The digital fad?

[T Rittenhouse]

Does anybody really think the great enthusiasm is going to be around for a
long time? Why do you only take part of the definition as relevant? Maybe
because the whole thing does not support your beliefs? Don't feel bad about
doing that though, that is how many people interpret the US Constitution,
ignore the parts they don't like.

Ciao,
Graywolf
http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto


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From: Ryan Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: The digital fad?


 Hi Everyone,

 So I got out my dictionary:

 fad (f²d) n. A fashion that is taken up with great
 enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.
 --faddism n. --faddist n. --faddy adj.

 Does anyone really think digital photography and DSLRs
 are going to be around for only a brief period of
 time? Then it's no fad, sorry.

 A Fellow Pentaxian,
 Ryan

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Re: The digital fad?

[Bruce Rubenstein]

Around here, folks think of the following as fads: hulla-hoops, 8 track 
cassetes, dry plate photography and gravity.

BR

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By this definition it is the enthusiasm that is short-lived, not the
object that people enthuse over. Your dictionary's definition is
consistent with this. Digital photography will probably have a long
and distinguished career after it has gone through the initial burst
of enthusiasm. In 1999/2000 the e-commerce was a fad. Now it is no
longer a fad, but it has not gone away.