[Leica] Not Buying M8

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> On 11/03/2008, Chris Saganich <chs2018@med.cornell.edu> wrote:
>> The photographer has become a technician and the computer
>> operator has become the artist.
> 
> As a passive consumer of images in magazines etc I do lament the
> demise of photographs and the rise of computer imaginary. Many of
> today's "photographs" have an eerie surreal quality. The boundary
> between photograph and cartoon has become blurred. Perhaps more
> disturbing is to see my local amateur photo clubs turning into
> Photoshop workshops. Yes I use Photoshop, but my manipulation of
> images is limited, partly from a lack of skill but mainly by a lack of
> interest. It's more of a dry darkroom than an artist's palette.
> Perhaps I am showing my age here and playing Don Quixote.
> 
> Having said all of that, I see no reason why a digital camera can't be
> used much the same way as a film camera.
> 
> Chris B
> 


Actually photographs today do not have an eerie surreal quality.
They look just like photographs.
And few here could tell an inkjet from a capture behind glass without a
loupe over a negative exposure printed in a darkroom behind glass without a
loupe. Except the glass would get in the way of the loupe so you couldn't
tell unless you asked. Or the print size gave it away.

More people are in the position to make photographs now.
They are not playing with Photoshop filters; they are making for the most
part straight photographs.

Of themselves in the mirror maybe.




Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com