[Leica] digital photography...

[Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>]

>And Mark the best is!  No matter what they shoot on their hotshot digi
>cams, they wont have diddly squat images for printing in a week or in 24
>hours,  the way the digi files are dumped because nobody has room to
>store them for the future or  printing.
>
>ted


mark, ted, and others,

for what it's worth (my opinion, that is), perhaps the digi stuff is going
to be best in those contexts where immediacy is essential, i.e.,
newspapers, where it is a question of shooting it this afternoon and
getting it in people's homes tomorrow morning. from a production point of
view, digital photography is a boon, i suppose...

i'm not a professional photographer, and have never worked as a pj, so i'm
just speaking as an observer of that craft, but i can't help but feel that
with the immediacy of digital photography, we are moving toward a more
disposable type of photography, one that is there to seize the moment, and,
the moment past, move on to the next significant event. i wonder if we are
soon to have 'classic' digital images, like lange's dust bowl mother, or
capa's d-day pictures, just shot with the latest digi-plastic marvel.

maybe so. i don't see any reason why that cannot be. but what about the
print? what about the physical presence of the photographic image? i
realize that that too is possible with digital photography, i just don't
know how it will be different, if it will be different.

somehow i sense we are not going to get something better or worse, just
different. perhaps as different as a photographic image was compared to a
painting, and we know where that debate went. in the end, i'm a little
suspicious about this new photography, but open to be proven wrong.

just thoughts.

guy