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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital has WON? Not by a longshot .. .. yet
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 07:27:35 +1000

Time is a killer: I plan winter and wet days for the darkroom and sunny 
weekends for picture taking.

Cheers
On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 05:11 Australia/Melbourne, Barney Quinn 
wrote:

> Tina,
>
> If I were a professional photographer, like you, I would have gone 
> digital long
> ago. I always wanted a really nice Hasselblad. ( I have several really 
> nice
> Leicas.) I found a used, mint 203 FE at a price it was really hard to 
> refuse. I
> got it because someone needed funds to buy digital equipment. All this 
> talk
> about the victory of digital, and there is no doubt in my mind that it 
> is
> changing photography in some very fundamental ways, makes me feel 
> insecure, and
> has me wondering if I did the right thing.
>
> My day job is as a computer professional. I have a 2 megapixel digital 
> camera.
> I put Photoshop Elements on my computer. It was an interesting 
> experience. I am
> not all that creative, but I am decent technically. Mostly what I like 
> to do
> these days is nice looking 16x20's. I have about thirty spare minutes 
> a day. I
> play the cello, and these almost always have to be dedicated to 
> practice. I
> have no time to do wet dark room work, and that also means that I have 
> no time
> to learn dry dark room work. One of my kids is into digital 
> photography. For me
> to learn, really learn digital photography, particularly the computer 
> part if
> it, as well as you or he knows it is going to take me two or three 
> years of
> practice. Someday I will, but that may have to be a retirement project.
>
> Bareny
>
> Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> At 09:24 PM 6/29/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>> It could not be mage to look as good as a scanned
>>> immage or a film print. Higlights were always blown out, dark areas
>>> were just in the dumps - neither could be rescued. I just thought it 
>>> was
>>> interesting to see a bunch of very bright photo neophytes SEE the 
>>> exact
>>> same thing! All seemed to leave with the impression that digital is 
>>> OK
>>> for the web, or shoot on a bright overcast day - but if you want it 
>>> all,
>>> stay
>>> with film.
>>> Just an observation - don't shoot the messenger!
>>> Ed
>>
>> As you say, Ed, they are photo neophytes.  The learning curve for 
>> PhotoShop
>> is very long.  If you invest the time and effort to learn what 
>> PhotoShop
>> can do, you will have no doubts that digital can surpass film - even 
>> in the
>> dynamic range category.  It does take time and effort to learn how to 
>> use
>> it.  I think I could study PhotoShop for the rest of my life and never
>> learn everything that it can do.  It is an extremely complex and 
>> powerful
>> program.  I am amazed every day at what I can do with PhotoShop, but 
>> you do
>> have to dedicate a lot of hours to learning how to use it.  On the 
>> other
>> hand, it is fun!!
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>> www.tinamanley.com
>>
>> photos available from:
>> www.pdiphotos.com
>> www.workbookstock.com
>> www.mira.com
>>
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