Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark makes excellent points. Aside from other factors, like I was trying to say one must bear output in mind. Just speaking for myself, my goal when shooting with an M isn't always wall-sized murals... on 11/5/01 6:37 PM, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com wrote: > Austin Franklin wrote: >> >>> Oh, Austin, come on. We're on a friendly basis and this flame is not >>> necessary. >> >> Sorry you took it that way, but it wasn't meant as a flame, George, it's an >> honest question. The person you were talking to below (and said not to >> presume etc.) DOES design digital cameras...and is a senior scientist for >> one of the top digital camera manufacturers now...and probably knows as much >> if not more than most anyone on this subject. If you really do have more >> experience than that, I'd really like to know. >> >>> The point is, to write off an entire use of a medium because of damn-near >>> negligible points is a bit silly. >> >> <Snip> > > To me we've got some of our friends (Jim) who design the stuff and would know > what they are talking about we we've got other of our Lugnut friends (Johnny) > who are getting stupendous results from digital. > Me i see Jim's point but have seen many stupendous digital prints from an > array > of sources: scanners backs and digital cameras low end and high. Small prints > maybe in some cases but how big do they have to be? > > I have a capitalist faith in technology overcoming all obstacles when there is > enoght money in there for them. > > They'll design software to grab the garbled trashed digital data from an array > of pixel grabbers or die trying! > > Lots of digital backs are being sold which fit on 4x5's or medium format > cameras > for catalogs. IT's here. It's happenin. We may be Leicalike low tech Geeks who > are not much for it just like we're not much for AF but it's here. The kids > are > having fun with it! > > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon > USA > > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html