Selling an LP collection of jazz in Northern California

I would say that digital photography went through a vaguely similar transition. I think it was a bit quicker. I missed the early transition... but I was deep into digital photography since around 1998. I was into film photography from 1968 through 1985. I have 130,000 photos. One of the parts I was aware of was the "Leica Look" discussions (~2016ish). To make a long story short... endless discussions whether the Leica Look was a real thing and if it truly was more like analog. 

I got an Leica M10 and after a year of shooting concluded that there was something very different... and in a way more analog. It was that the dark tones were expanded in contrast to other digital cameras... and their incredible lenses were made to focus wide open... instead of in the middle like f8. The combination offered to bring out photos of rich tones with great nuances and you could control the blurring to make them romantic. The combination is really powerful. So you could take photos of clouds on a dark day and have incredible nuanced detail... as opposed to most cameras which tended to be dark and light... that’s it. As a consequence my Leica is by far my favorite camera although I still use my Nikon (with about every lens) and my FujiPro (with about every lens made). 

So, I suspect that the photographic transition was similar. Digital tended to be absolutely linear in representing the spectrum and not bring nuances to some of the spectrum that are particularly appealing to humans... and the contrast could be disconcerting. Now, like in audio, the problem has been worked and you can get better digital. A lot of audio equipment lacked rich bloomed midrange which is where much of human voices are and sensitivity. The tinny sound with slam may be detailed and accurate... but not warm and satisfying like analog tends to be. 

@whitestix did you find a buyer for your collection?

Digital Photography vs Analogue Photography is where the user of the Camera/Lens is to manage light to create a negative, that can be converted into a medium. 

The user of a device is the initial creator of the medium that can be produced, i e, the Photo.

Digital Recorded Music vs Analogue Recorded Music is where the Medium is already produced, their is no creativity from the user of the Medium.

The Electrical Energy required to create sound is either born from embedded code or a embedded form referred to as modulus. 

I am not seeing anything but two very different technologies when there are notions proposed Photography and Replaying Music are with similarities.

Digital Art as a Medium vs Traditional Art Mediums, I can understand where a debate can develop, as disciplines to create become very very similar. 

@ghdprentice - 'Leica look'? You mean there are people who claim they can tell what camera/lens a photo was taken with by looking at the photo? 

There may be folks that can tell. It is obvious to me sometimes, sometimes not.

I would say it is mostly the attributes of the tool used to capture images that is unique. It is sensitivity in a couple of areas of the visual spectrum that allow emotionally expressive photos to be more easily captured. Sort of like mid-range bloom in audio.  I have tried to take a photo that I have taken with my Nikon D800 and convert it into a photo that looks like I took from my Leica… I could do it easily in normal photo settings (or sometimes they look identical already).  However, on a very cloudy day on the ocean with rocks… it is hard to change the D800 to the Leica image. The sensitivity and nuance in the dark tones is simply spectacular with the Leica… and the lenses work particularly well in this environment because of they are made to work optimally in low light.

I have many thousands of photos from my Nikon and my Fuji and my Leica. If I’m just wandering through photos looking through things and I hit photos that emotional move me they are almost always from the Leica.