[Leica] Some questions and thoughts about the M8

[SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)]

In a message dated 10/29/2006 9:19:50 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
jsmith342@cox.net writes:

But when  good digital cameras began to gain
acceptance, color digital image became  acceptable in no time at all


I think the age of the photographer has a lot to do with it.   Those of us 
in 
the AARP bracket understand film, and many were weaned on BW, and  see it as 
the only acceptable medium for street.  I fall in a different  category 
since 
my main focus was news and documentary, so color was and is a  gift.
 
Many of the SP "youngsters"  have never used a film camera.  Some  of the 
guys on street have taken up film "to experiment."    
 
If you are thirty or younger, you're  more at home with a  computer than any 
other way of communicating, so editing on a computer is easier  to 
understand 
than visualizing on a light table.   
 
When I came to this job, it took several weeks to train my first assistant  
to use PhotoShop.   I just took on a new assistant, and it took two  hours 
of 
training, and that was mostly in the way we build file names.
 
Digital is not only acceptable to many of these people, it is the only way  
they know.  (By the way, my sons Eric and Adam both prefer film.)
 
 

Regards,  
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
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