Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A few thought which might apply: Digital photography is Digital photography if it was shot from a Digital camera, back or scanned form a neg or even print or a scanner was used with live objects. I'm sure most Digital photography is from scanned negs sometimes prints. When Digital cameras catch up to the scanned results in quality and accessible price I'm not sure it will be a big milestone. This biggest milestone has already happened with affordable output I.E. printers like Epson. A bigger milestone will occur when the scanners get better (photo cd quality at affordable prices) and cheaper and more readily accept larger films sizes as well as 35mm. Before Photoshop there were airbrushes. The old photographer whose studio I bought out twenty years ago told me I would never make it in photography unless I learned to airbrush as he had done. So I got one from day one. Did I use it? Yes to brush of my lenses. Did I once or twice hire airbrushers to bail me out? Yep. It didn't take Photoshop to make photography not be real. "Art is a lie that reveals the truth" ???? Yea, tell that to the Military Industrial Complex. Mark Rabiner