Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Do I really insist? Oh yes, of course I do. Frightfully sorry for boring you by doing so! Not that it matters, but I think the analogy does work for colour neg quite well, at least as well as it does for b&w neg. Surely the point is that the neg is a an artifact, a document in it's own right, much like a score. When you come to print that whatever you do - burning or dodging or cross-processing or solorising, or even scanning - you're still working from that original document. The lack of that document is one of the things that I most dislike about digital. P. ******* Paul Hardy Carter www.paulhardycarter.com ******* On 7 Oct 2004, at 12:38, Phong wrote: > If you really insist on carrying on the analogy, the RAW file > would be the digital score. Any in-camera manipulation would > be out of the control of the printer, as is any darkroom manipulation > to produce the negative. And for sure there is a lot of potential > for creativity in interpreting the RAW file into the final print. > (Even from a JPG file for that matter) > > But you can only carry an analogy so far, and whether music to > film photography, or film to digital photography, the analogy falls > apart sooner or later, and for me, it's rather sooner. Never mind > digital, the analogy does not work very well for color photography > at all, either at the score or the performance level. > > - Phong > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >