Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 >From: Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com> >Subject: Re: [Leica] The Negative >I find the most impressive quality of the film negative or positive >to be that "IT" was there. IT remains as an artifact that actually >existed at the exact time and place of the very point-of-view that IT >represents. There's something quite magical about that concept. > >Regards, >George Lottermoser >george@imagist.com ................................................................................ I get this magical feeling too. I think it's why I don't feel comfortable taking digital pictures for my personal work. Pixels don't have any weight (sic) in my philosophy of photography. That piece of film shared my experience, and we went through the darkroom together. Even though I have a huge backlog of unprinted pictures, I still can get pleasure by just looking at the negatives. And most of my color was on Kodachrome, so even if I don't project them, viewing a sleeve of 20 slides excites my eye and memory. Plus I love using film cameras. Just added (I hope this isn't truncated): http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Bunnies_AMR.jpg.html NOT taken at Halloween, but in August! IIIf and 50mm Summicron. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak Senior Photographer Photo Services Univ. of Wis.- Milwaukee Information & Media Technologies amr3@uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/