Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To each his own, Erwin. We all respect your dedication to the craft and clearly you outline the space into which digital photography should expand. But careful when ascribing ignorance of or lack of care about photographic truths to those who output digitally: there are a host of grain sniffers amongst us. I would guess that most of us started out (like me) as silverprint snobs... then had to eat our words when our Epsons produced prints that simply 'looked better' than our darkroom work. I personally had to go away and rearrange my preconceptions. There is something 'going on' here, as Dan says, unless you dismiss digital prints as the photographic equivalent of junk food, which they can be, but aren't always. Personally, I think Oddmund, whom I never encountered, was dead dead wrong about the P&S thing for street work. You would expect me to say this of course, but SP is demanding technically of both the photographer and the camera because (this is what I find anyway) you are operating at the envelope the whole time. Of course if you zone focus and shoot 1/125 at f/8 then this isn't true... but good SP is about more than that... just as a Leica is about more than its lenses. The very best pictures I've taken, as well as being decent street shots, are in the centre of the sweet spot, technically speaking. That's when you know you're using a leica. And you can see it in a digital print perfectly clearly. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com