Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/7/03 10:44:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > I doubt very much at AA would be shooting digital at this point, other > than to experiment. I have absolutely no doubt, however, that he would > have long-ago abandoned the wet darkroom in favor of scanning his > negatives and doing is darkroom work in Photoshop, where he would have > far more control over his image output than can be obtained in the wet > darkroom. I also have no doubt that there would be an extremely popular, > successful, and stunningly effective line of Ansel Adams Photoshop > plug-ins. :-) > > B. D. - -------------------------------- BD, If there's anything I know about Adams, it's that he was commercially-minded as well as quality oriented. Even now The New York Times sells only freshly printed B&W silver pictures for $195 each from their archives. No collector at the turn of the 21st century in his right mind will buy digital prints. Adams, well aware of that fact and who is customers are, would not play games with the market. He would be producing his traditional prints and getting very well-paid for them. He was conscious of the bottom line. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html