Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote: > Thank you for posting such a thoughtful commentary. I find there is > quite enough to worry about with photography not to have to relearn or > review so many little details: too much sharpening, aggressive > firmware, noisy chips. It makes simple film/grain/lens choices so much > easier. Thanks, Alastair. And my condolences on the passing of Yoda. I recently had to think hard about our four-legged friends' mortality when my dog, Harpo came down with diabetes. Thank goodness, it's under control after several months of adjusting insulin dosages. But the possibility that it might not be controllable weighed very heavily on us. > Someone said that digital imaging would become a hobby of its own, and > this seems to be true. You said it, brother! Digital techniques seem like nested Chinese boxes, or Russian matrioshka dolls--every time you get one open, there's another one inside to learn. With the Digilux 1 and Lumix, you also have the camera's personality to deal with--more than with other digicams. Check out the digital forum at leica-camera.com. It's full of postings about settings and Photoshop kludges to compensate for some of the image quality issues. But, we ignore digital at our peril. It's here, it's affecting photography both in terms of technique and content. Ideally, digital can become another means to the end of making good images. Sometimes digital is so flexible and convenient that it only makes sense to use it. Sometimes film is just plain better. Sometimes either will do nicely. And often, with digital we will take an image when with film, we might not make the effort. - --Peter Klein Seattle, WA - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html