[Leica] Tina and Digital (was, Enlarger

[bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)]

Oh holypuppypoop! No one ever suggested that people shouldn't use what suits
them. The Daguerreotype process still suits a tiny handful of people, and
they do amazing work. But that doesn't mean that the process is not an
artifact of the photographic past - nor is labeling it so disparaging; it's
just honest. ;-)


On 2/7/06 1:23 PM, "Tom Westbrook" <lists@tomwestbrook.com> wrote:

> B. D. Colen wrote:
>> But such prints are becoming, with every
>> passing day, more an artifact of an earlier era in photography than the
>> modern photographic standard. Of course whether that's good or bad is fuel
>> for another thread.
> 
> Nonsense. Calling wet BW prints "artifacts" seems a bit strong, unless
> you mean in the sense that digital prints are also artifacts
> (human-crafted). As far as I can tell there never was a Modern
> Photographic Standard. People should use what best suits their artistic
> vision and others--agree or not--should let them without feeling the
> need to be disparaging.
>