RE: [Leica] squabbling over digitial vs. film

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Come off it, Randy. Leica/Shmeica - a Leica digital is going to produce
digital images, which will look like other high-end digital images. They
will NOT look like Leica film images because they will not be produced
with film.

And are your R series lenses better than the Nikon and Canon "pro"
series lenses? I don't know - but I'll be that under normal
circumstances, using, say 200-400 asa film, virtually no one would be
able to tell the difference given a blind test.;-)


B. D.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Randy
Jensen
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:30 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] squabbling over digitial vs. film


<<<<A digital R back, Gary, will produce digital images. Period. The
only difference in how they look, compared to other digital images
captured by high end cameras using quality glass, will be in your
imagination. ;-)>>>>

So a film camera will produce "film" images?  Period?  The only
difference in how THEY look, compared to other high end cameras will be
in my imagination?  I'm imagining my R series lenses to be better than
Minolta or Nikon or Canon?  It's all in my imagination????  Damn, I
really wasted some cash.  :)

R

- -----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of bdcolen
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:55 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] squabbling over digitial vs. film


A digital R back, Gary, will produce digital images. Period. The only
difference in how they look, compared to other digital images captured
by high end cameras using quality glass, will be in your imagination.
;-)
- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Gary Klein
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:45 PM
To: Leica-Users-Digest
Subject: [Leica] squabbling over digitial vs. film


From my personal experience, there is a different look to digital versus
film.  Film to me has what I call a more historic gritty look to it due
to the grain no matter how fine grained and digital has an ultra clean
look, which is different in subtle manners, depending upon the
chip-camera maker and or Photoshop operator.

I think that for many digital is faster quicker and so forth.  Film is
for the more deliberate photographer, who wants to have the chemical
influence in his work (i.e. black and white tone control)

Recall that even Ansel Adams predicted the development and the growth of
the digital medium.  I am sure if he were around today, he would embrace
it or at the least try to understand it to see if it would work with his
style and type of photography.

That doesn't mean anyone should pick on one medium or another.  I use
both mediums at present and I know there are instances where I prefer
film and vice versa.

It should be interesting when the R series digiback becomes
available....

gck




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