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Subject: [Leica] Tina and Digital (was, Enlarger
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Feb 7 17:45:58 2006

Absolutely. 

B. D.


On 2/7/06 8:30 PM, "Bernard Quinn" <bquinn@sgi.com> wrote:

> 
> BD. Fair Enough. Truce?
> 
> Barney
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bquinn=sgi.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bquinn=sgi.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of B. D.
> Colen
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:34 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Tina and Digital (was, Enlarger
> 
> Barney, again, I wasn't responding to your response - I was responding
> to
> Marc's repeated posts of last night. And I did not, and would not ever
> have
> the temerity to suggest that Marc shouldn't use his technology of choice
> -
> whether or not it will allow him to achieve his creative ends. His life,
> his
> choice.
> 
> 
> On 2/7/06 2:08 PM, "Barney Quinn" <bquinn@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> I think that Marc should use whatever kind of photographic technology
> he wants
>> to
>> use. It's his art, and his prerogative to make what ever choices will
> enhance
>> his
>> work and allow him to achieve his creative ends. If he doesn't like
> digital,
>> then
>> he shouldn't use it. I'll go a step further and say that I, too, am
> one of the
>> people who wonder about what seems to be a shift from film to digital
> on this
>> list. But, I don't want to get into that. I think that it is fair to
> say that
>> we
>> are a leica-centric on-line community rather than  a strict
> leica-users group.
>> But, that's OK with me. I think that the diversity on this list is its
>> greatest
>> strength.
>> 
>> I am not one of the Alpha members of this list. I never will be. I
> don't even
>> want
>> to be. I don't often know enough about anything on this list to be
> able to
>> comment
>> on it intelligently, so I don't. Perhaps I misunderstood. My reading
> of
>> yesterday's thread on this subject is that Marc had asked several
> times what
>> RIP
>> meant. I thought that he was asking because he wanted to know. I can't
> tell a
>> NOOKY from a ROOKEY. But, it just so happens that I do know something
> about
>> image
>> processing and computing. I thought, as a fair exchange for all the
>> information I
>> have gained from this list and for which I have never paid a fee or
> made a
>> contribution in return, that I would offer what I could in the way of
> an
>> explanation. If I have wasted the groups time, I am sorry. But, my
> attempt at
>> an
>> explanation didn't come easily, and it was my attempt to give the
> group what
>> benefit I could of my years of experience, just as those who have had
> years of
>> experience in photography have offered theirs.
>> 
>> Barney
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> "B. D. Colen" wrote:
>> 
>>> Okay, I wasn't going to post this unless this started up again
> today...but
>>> since it has....(and all due respect to you, Barney :-) )
>>> ...
>>> This is perhaps the single most inane thread ever to take up LUG
> bandwidth.
>>> :-)
>>>  Tina is not a techie. I am not a techie. Ted is not a techie, nor
> are most
>>> of the hundreds of other people on this list who have figured out -
> mostly
>> 
>> 
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