[Leica] A digital sensor is just another type of film

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Film is a different medium from digital photography. You are
describing a hybrid of the two where scanners do the conversion from
the analog world into the digital domain.

If you buy into Ansel's idea of a negative being a composition and the
print being the performance then staying in the analog domain will
present prints that are not perfect digital copies but are
hand-crafted and subtly different one from the other and represent
some substantial amount of time by a human being to create. This makes
the printer, separate from the photographer,  an artisan and hand-work
will have, in my feeble opinion, a greater and greater value over
time.

Adam

On 8/2/05, Afterswift@aol.com <Afterswift@aol.com> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Brett Weston had to destroy his negatives to maintain the value of his
> prints. It was the only way he could assure the buyer of the one of a kind 
> value of
> his acquisition. That says something about the significance of negatives.
> Their permanence. Their ability to regenerate fresh prints. Their 
> incontrovertible
> reference for the original scene. Their physicality.
> 
> What I find odd in our thinking is the notion that film is limited and 
> labor
> and time intensive. Therefore, we should consign film to obsolescence. Yet 
> we
> could all return to our film Nikons and still practice digital photography
> without missing a beat. Long before I bought my first digital I scanned my
> favorite film prints as they came from the processor and made them into 
> image files.
> And I still have their negatives. Sometimes I think a sensor is just 
> another
> type of film.
> 
> Bob
> 
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