Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] What Would Ansel Do?
From: Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:21:30 -0800

on 12/12/03 9:11 PM, Jeff S at four_season_photo@yahoo.com wrote:

> "Would Ansel Adams Have Gone Digital?"
> Peter Lewis On Tech, Fortune.com
> 
> http://www.fortune.com/fortune/ontech/0,15704,560361,00.html
> 
> Further discussion on Slashdot:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/12/1651200.shtml?tid=126&tid=152&tid=185
> 
> Why Lewis sought the opinion of a Nikon exec seemed
> strange, and said exec seemed to be grasping at straws
> when pressed to name a digital camera that Adams might
> have liked: A D100? Personally, I think a Digilux 2
> would've been closer to the mark ;-)
> 

IIRC, AA in his biography said (paraphrasing) that he was excited at the
possibilities presented by computer image processing.  As with his film
cameras he probably would have used the largest digital camera he was
willing to carry.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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