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Subject: [Leica] digital Agfa Scala ? MARK
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:17:31 +0100
References: <D2C6F953.53F84%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Le 22 janv. 2016 ? 03:08, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> a ?crit :

> Like Tofu dogs and veggie burgers.
> Your better off with rice and beans and if you don't like it go out and 
> kill
> a cow.
> I've embraced the vastly superior results and vastly superior workflo I get
> this millennium with digital cameras and Photoshop; with Epson printers and
> Moab rag papers or just computer monitors looking at jpegs I've put in the
> LUG Gallery or other places on the internet.
> If there ever was a better time to be excited to be doing photography I
> don't know when that was.

Spot on!

> I'm super happy to be alive now and be involved on
> the ground floor in this burgeoning technology.
> I'm sure as hell not dreaming about the so called good old days of film and
> darkroom work which went from work around to the uncontrolled next.
> If I ever get nostalgic for the look of film I'll go out and shoot a roll 
> of
> film with they still sell and put them in cameras I still own. I think the
> look of film will be perfectly rendered by using film. And if I shoot film
> and try to make it look like something else it won't work out so well
> because film is film and something else is something else.
> Film does a great job of looking like film. The resemblance is uncanny.
> Digital photography does a great job of looking just like digital
> photography. I like digital photography.  I have no apologies about the 
> fact
> that I'm shooting, printing and loving digital photography. If I didn't I'd
> do something else. Like sewing. Or writing sonnets.


I love your verse Mark, keep it coming, with some nice (night) photos by way 
of illustration if you please.

Amities
Philippe


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