Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's funny, George, but it's precisely the opposite quality that I find captivating about digital - the fact that the scene I saw as light hit my eye and was translated into electrical and chemical impulses in my brain, which translated those impulses into a picture, is captured by an electronic system, stored as 1s and 0s! and then turned back into the image I saw. I'm sure I wouldn't find this magical if I was a computer guy, but... ;-) On 11/20/06 1:42 PM, "Lottermoser George" <imagist3@mac.com> wrote: > I find the most impressive quality of the film negative or positive > to be that "IT" was there. IT remains as an artifact that actually > existed at the exact time and place of the very point-of-view that IT > represents. There's something quite magical about that concept. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george@imagist.com > > > > On Nov 18, 2006, at 6:52 PM, Michiel Fokkema wrote: > >> Get the best for every purpose. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information