RE: [Leica] squabbling over digitial vs. film

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

I doubt very much at AA would be shooting digital at this point, other
than to experiment. I have absolutely no doubt, however, that he would
have long-ago abandoned the wet darkroom in favor of scanning his
negatives and doing is darkroom work in Photoshop, where he would have
far more control over his image output than can be obtained in the wet
darkroom. I also have no doubt that there would be an extremely popular,
successful, and stunningly effective line of Ansel Adams Photoshop
plug-ins. :-)

B. D.

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In a message dated 8/7/03 9:28:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
bdcolen@earthlink.net writes:

> > 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.
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I have no doubt that Ansel would have given digital a shot. Probably
used the 
digital back for the Hasselblad. I can only conjecture that after he had

given digital a fair chance (fully exploring digital's B&W potential in
every 
which way), he would have returned to his standard traditional darkroom
work. 

Adams was a fine pianist, and I'm sure he gave electronic keyboards a
try. I 
doubt whether he performed on them.

br 
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