Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/03

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Subject: [Leica] Question for photojournalists concerning digital photos
From: gwlists at aol.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Wed Aug 3 14:15:33 2005
References: <S.0000379006@trivalleycentral.com>
 
But picture researchers now going through such 'black holes' are coming 
up with real gems just like prospectors finding nuggets of gold. If we 
edit the way we are now there will be no nuggets of gold to find.

Gerry (a fellow offender!)

Steven King wrote:

 > But that's a false impression of real life,
 > because after about four years or so, the accumulated negs and
 > contacts were
 > placed in boxes and thrown into a storeroom--essentially the black
 > hole of
 > news photography.  If we were to search for old negs or contact
 > sheets, it
 > was more a matter of luck to find what we were after.


-- 
Gerry Walden
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