Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Funny, the world's oldest sound archive would not consider anything else other than digital when it comes to preservation. For sound archives, nothing is superior than the digital file. Photography is photography. It is what your eyes convey to your mind. Who cares how the image was made? We're supposed to be photographers, not technicians, getting buried in the details. But it is easier to discuss technical subjects than it is to discuss aesthetic subjects, I suppose. Daniel On 1/31/08, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > > In a message dated 1/30/2008 1:58:10 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > > lug-request@leica-users.org writes: > > > > The M7 and other M's will always be stalwarts for those of us who > > want the gilt-edge certificate of silver and THE Negative. There's no > > way of substituting digital for the real thing. > > > > Bob > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Bob, > > > > Digital is fun and temporary. Film is for the long haul and permanent. > > As > > the kids would say during the 60s? Whose side are you on? Me? I'm on > > both > > sides. > > > > Bob R > > > > > To me " the real thing" is the camera I've got in my hand at the moment. > Which ever Film or Memory hard it happens to have in it is " the real > thing" form of capture. > But more importantly " the real thing" is what ever gets printed. > Or at the very minimum uploaded. > > Any " the real thing" images we can see from this supposed but very smug > and one sided "Both sides" poster? > > > > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >