Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, I wanted to try to give something back. Barney -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bquinn=sgi.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bquinn=sgi.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of bruce Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 5:40 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Tina and Digital (was, Enlarger I'm lost in this babble .................. but what I do know Barney, is that your text on "image processing and computing" is a succinct and meaningful analysis of the various aspects which can only serve to further the knowledge of most/many of those on the LUG ........... a time-consuming account, for which thank you. B. On 7-feb-2006, at 20:08, Barney Quinn wrote: > > > I think that Marc should use whatever kind of photographic > technology he wants to > use. It's his art, and his prerogative to make what ever choices > will enhance his > work and allow him to achieve his creative ends. If he doesn't like > digital, then > he shouldn't use it. I'll go a step further and say that I, too, am > one of the > people who wonder about what seems to be a shift from film to > digital on this > list. But, I don't want to get into that. I think that it is fair > to say that we > are a leica-centric on-line community rather than a strict leica- > users group. > But, that's OK with me. I think that the diversity on this list is > its greatest > strength. > > I am not one of the Alpha members of this list. I never will be. I > don't even want > to be. I don't often know enough about anything on this list to be > able to comment > on it intelligently, so I don't. Perhaps I misunderstood. My > reading of > yesterday's thread on this subject is that Marc had asked several > times what RIP > meant. I thought that he was asking because he wanted to know. I > can't tell a > NOOKY from a ROOKEY. But, it just so happens that I do know > something about image > processing and computing. I thought, as a fair exchange for all the > information I > have gained from this list and for which I have never paid a fee or > made a > contribution in return, that I would offer what I could in the way > of an > explanation. If I have wasted the groups time, I am sorry. But, my > attempt at an > explanation didn't come easily, and it was my attempt to give the > group what > benefit I could of my years of experience, just as those who have > had years of > experience in photography have offered theirs. > > Barney > > > > "B. D. Colen" wrote: > >> Okay, I wasn't going to post this unless this started up again >> today...but >> since it has....(and all due respect to you, Barney :-) ) >> ... >> This is perhaps the single most inane thread ever to take up LUG >> bandwidth. >> :-) >> Tina is not a techie. I am not a techie. Ted is not a techie, nor >> are most >> of the hundreds of other people on this list who have figured out >> - mostly > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information