Re: [Leica] Old vs. New Technology

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Hey, George, to each his own...Because I get the same feeling scanning
and the printing images on the computer that you describe, and I used to
have, in the darkroom...I am burning, dodging, adjusting contrast, etc.
etc. etc....I'm just using a different technology to do it....but it all
comes down to producing that image on paper...

B. D.

George Lottermoser wrote:

> danh@selectsa.com (Dan Honemann)11/2/0011:25 PM
>
> > And it touches on some topics recently debated here.
>
> Thoughts, as I worked in the darkroom, on some prints for an
> upcoming show, this morning:
>
> This feels like a continuation of the original photographic
> process of exposing the film ‹ handling the same piece of film
> which was exposed to the subject - pushing light back through
> that film - still focusing lenses - still working with apertures
> and time in the same intuitive manner - exposing yet another
> light sensitive emulsion - attempting to control values and
> contrast with this amazing energy called light.
>
> And there is something about this darkroom work which allows for
> such thinking. There is a slowed-down-time to contemplate, and
> "feel" the process which is going on, both aesthetically and
> technically a certain immersion in it.
>
> Just sharing thoughts. Not trying to say darkroom's better than
> scanning and inkjetting, which I also find fascinating. It's just
> that when working on the computer I don't have quite the same
> feeling of continuity with the Lens/Light/Focus/Aperture/Time
> phenomena. Rather my mind shifts to a whole other set of
> experience and intuitions than when working in the darkroom.
>
> George