Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]corrected, sorry for the misprinting: Picture or music, the source is always analog. Vinyl records compares to film. CD's compare to digital photography. Psychoacoustics compares to optical perception. I always preferred the sound of good vinyl records on a high-end system, as I prefer the results of "analog" film. Regards Jean-Michel - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack McLain" <jmclainaz@comcast.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:58 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Is It "real photography" or Is It Digital? > Yes indeed... it is why so many of us audiophiles spend big-bucks to listen > to mucic through tube amps (even tube analog stages on CD players). It > seems that each digital link that can be replaced with an analog link > improves the sound (or makes it less "digital"). > > The analogy with digital photography vs. film photography is very apt. > cheers > Jack > Jack McLain > Tucson, AZ > http://jackmclain-photography.dotcommunity.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randy Jensen" <randy@jamzcheer.com> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:18 PM > Subject: RE: [Leica] Is It "real photography" or Is It Digital? > > > > Excellent question. The analogy that works for me is the tube-mic Dolby > SR > > analog recorded audio performance. Yes, you listen to it on CD, but it > > absolutely sounds different than if it was recorded "all digital." > > > > There's a good reason vintage tube mics and compressors sell for so much > > money. They keep trying to emulate them digitally, and they're getting > > better, but they still don't cut it. > > > > Randy > > www.randyjensenphoto.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Buzz > > Hausner > > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:43 PM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: [Leica] Is It "real photography" or Is It Digital? > > > > > > Pardon this luddite's stony ignorance, but aren't they all digital on a > > computer? > > > > Buzz Hausner > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Saganich, > > Christopher/Medical Physics > > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:22 PM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: RE: [Leica] "real photography" > > > > Here is a good example: can you tell if this is film or digital? > > > > http://www.28mm.org/gallery.php?artist=emesegaal&issue=9 > > > > Chris Saganich > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html