Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/11

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Subject: [Leica] Not Buying M8
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (amr3@uwm.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 11 22:31:45 2008
References: <200803112106.m2BL1vlN089110@server1.waverley.reid.org>

Quoting "Chris Saganich" <chs2018@med.cornell.edu>:

> I only try to think about why I have an apprehension about digital images,
> even regarding the ones I make.  I feel there is something terribly
> sinister about the entire digital community and this is disconcerting to 
> me.
..........................................................................................................................................
Part of it might be the ease of manipulation.  My favorite photos are those 
odd
glimpses of life
as captured by photographers like Elliott Erwitt.  I like knowing a situation
actually existed somewhere in the world, and there is a piece of film that 
was
there, and also now exists to prove it.  Photos always could be faked, but it
took a lot of skill to disguise it.

When things are altered digitally, it is like painting, where an artist can 
add
or subtract anything.  That kind of constructed photography has never
interested me.  I like the challenge of trying to get a perfect image from an
imperfect world.  With digital, any picture can be made perfect, so why even
take pictures?

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
amr3@uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/



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