Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ansel would by now have a deal with one of the medium format digital back manufacturers who would be producing an Ansel Adams Signature Model...And it would go on the Hasselblad with the zone system metering he is supposed to have designed. The one thing I would be willing to be money on, were there any way to settle the bet, is that Ansel would long ago have begun scanning, doing all his pre-developing tray work in Photoshop, and then would probably have had the final prints produced with something like a Fuji Lightjet - although he might well have gotten involved in quadtone inkjet printing. But either way, I can't imagine that someone who so relied on darkroom manipulation for his final results would not have become as much a master of Photoshop has he was of darkroom work. 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 Eric Welch Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 12:42 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] What Would Ansel Do? No way. Ansel was an SLR man all the way. He has specifically said he did not like using rangefinders because their compositional accuracy never met his needs. His last camera that he used regularly was a Leica R4. But he was rich enough that's he'd be guying a Hassleblad H2 with the $12,000 digital back. No, wait, Hassleblad would have given him one. On Dec 12, 2003, at 9:11 PM, Jeff S wrote: > "Would Ansel Adams Have Gone Digital?" > Peter Lewis On Tech, Fortune.com > > http://www.fortune.com/fortune/ontech/0,15704,560361,00.html > > Further discussion on Slashdot: > http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/12/1651200.shtml? > tid=126&tid=152&tid=185 > > Why Lewis sought the opinion of a Nikon exec seemed > strange, and said exec seemed to be grasping at straws > when pressed to name a digital camera that Adams might > have liked: A D100? Personally, I think a Digilux 2 > would've been closer to the mark ;-) > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > http://companion.yahoo.com/ > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman... neither works. - Will Rogers. - -- 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