Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 30/10/00 8:38 pm, Krechtz@aol.com at Krechtz@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 10/30/00 7:26:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, > john@pinkheadedbug.com writes: > > << I sense angels putting on their tutus and the sewing box creaking open. >>> > Good point! However, not all of the end products have been or are > photographs. As you stated, they have been made in many diverse ways, > involving radically different levels of expertise and labor, looking quite > distinctive. For the sake of precision and historical accuracy, they > continue to be described as separate entities by publishers, curators and - > photographers. Right, and I would expect that to continue. The signal path is always of interest to completists and connoisseurs and curators who have to fill catalog space. 'A pigment-ink inkjet print using a customised driver on a modified Epson 1160 of a Photoshop-manipulated 4000 dpi 16-bit scan of an APX400 negative developed in Xtol 1:2 for 12 minutes @ 68F of an image taken using a Leica M4-P through a Summilux-M ASPH 35 wide open @ 1/30s". Oh, yeah, and what was it of again? - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com