Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Since you asked...... I have never seen a B+W digital print that I could not identify as such. I can see pixelation, jaggies, moire patterns, banding, and almost anything else when I look at digital B+W. I simply am very sensitive to the optical effects of digitization. The form of scientific inspection that I view with, you may not consider fair, and the same digital print may not bother you, or the guy next to you, or even his neighbor, but it bothers me. And I can not get over the artifacts that I see. BTW, do you know where the additional pixels come from on a digital print? I don;t.... I do know that on a analog print, WYSIWYG. Nothing is invented, fractaled, interpolated, blended, JPG'd, compresed and decompressed, or otherwise created by some algorithim... If it ain;t on the film, it ain't on the print. Not to say that I am the ultimate analog printer, because I am just a novice....but it is MY work. No programmer had any thing to do with it. I make the decisions.... As long as there is analog film, analog paper, and a darkrrom, I am sold on analog. It is smoother, it is archival ( historically proven, not some theoretical BS produced by the "scientific" tests of the manufacturer), it is better to my eye. I do not suggest that you will agree, but at least allow that some of us are a bit fussier or maybe just fussy people, and that digital is not our cuppa.... Back to analog photography.... or should we break up this list into 2.... analog and digital? as in..... Leica SIlver and Leica Bits? My personal vote......but, then again, I am not King...... Frank Filippone, telling it like he sees it...... red735i@earthlink.net yet this begs the question of why you don't love the digital prints. Jonathan