Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm sure the comments aren't a troll - these are important issues, and issues that are troubling to many members of this group. I would point out though that I find amusing your description of digital photography as seeming "not a little bit like magic" - given that one so often hears the traditional darkroom process described in precisely those same words. :-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of John Black Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:25 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Fw: A priceless comment Good question... Richard is, of course, as some of us are, heavily invested in silver halide photography and view the digital electronic media with the unease born of ignorance. I freely admit to being born a bit too early to be at ease with the digital (read computer) world as my children and grandchildren are. They seem to be born understanding it's principles and methods. To me it is a means to an end, another method of communicating and a novel means of capturing images. But I am an analog person. I look at a CD or DVD (or tape for that matter) and don't see an image. I look at a negative or trany and see an image or a potential pix. Down in my monkey brain (core) computers and digital photography seem not a little like magic. The jury's still out whether or not it's black or white magic. Thanks for letting me muse a bit... and this is NOT intended as a troll... JB Doug Herr opined; > > I wonder if Richard Knoppow sees the irony in his electronic words. > > - -- 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