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Subject: RE: [Leica] Fw: A priceless comment
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:31:03 -0400

LOL!! I've thought of having a couple of little dishes of fixer next to
mine for the smell..but I have no sense of smell, so....of course I
could spill some fixer, Dektol and stop bath on the floor of my office
to get the right ambiance...:-)

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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 Saganich,
Christopher/Medical Physics
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:51 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Fw: A priceless comment


Good point BD.  In the darkroom, it's the mood lighting which adds to
the magic.  That why I keep a lava lamp next to my computer.

Chris Saganich


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of B. D.
Colen
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:33 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Fw: A priceless comment

I'm sure the comments aren't a troll - these are important issues, and
issues that are troubling to many members of this group. I would point
out though that I find amusing your description of digital photography
as seeming "not a little bit like magic" - given that one so often hears
the traditional darkroom process described in precisely those same
words.
:-)

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of John Black
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:25 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Fw: A priceless comment


Good question...  Richard is, of course, as some of us are, heavily
invested in silver halide photography and view the digital electronic
media with the unease born of ignorance. I freely admit to being born a
bit too early to be at ease with the digital (read computer) world as my
children and grandchildren are. They seem to be born understanding it's
principles and methods.  To me it is a means to an end, another method
of communicating and a novel means of capturing images.  But I am an
analog person. I look at a CD or DVD (or tape for that matter) and don't
see an image. I look at a negative or trany and see an image or a
potential pix.

Down in my monkey brain (core) computers and digital photography seem
not a little like magic. The jury's still out whether or not it's black
or white magic.

Thanks for letting me muse a bit...  and this is NOT intended as a
troll...

JB


Doug Herr opined;

>
> I wonder if Richard Knoppow sees the irony in his electronic words.
>
>



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