Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/11

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Subject: Re: Off topic -- digital
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 21:42:08 -0600

At 08:53 AM 11/11/97 -0600, you wrote:

>Stephen has said that Ansel would have loved to work digitally, as he was a
>cutting-edge kind of guy.

He's right, since Ansel said many times he envied the young batch of
photographers coming up.

This IS a brave new world. But I think for those who are concerned with the
ultimate quality, the option of shooting on film and then transferring to
digital via a scanner is the best of both worlds. Photoshop can do amazing
things with images, but what it can't do, yet, is make prints that are
silky smooth in tonality and gradation. 

That's why we own Leica, right? Image quality is very important and a big
part of why we use Leica. As a photojournalist, that's almost heresy for me
to say that, but I am not deterred. I love photography for itself as well
as my job.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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