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Subject: [Leica] Re: Ansel Adams and digital
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Tue Jan 13 06:25:22 2009
References: <1343.1231824649@thadbrown.com>

Couldn't agree with you more on this!
The very fact that he was instrumental in the development of PN55 at  
Polaroid attests to the possibility.
I mean, who took Polaroid as a serious, and relevant, product at the  
time?
sd

On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:30 PM, TCB wrote:

> AA had a deep, almost sensual understanding of all of the  
> technology involved in
> making an image. I can't imagine he would be resistant to any newer  
> tech
> available today, though I also can't imagine he'd be locked into  
> any kind of pure
> digital rig.
>
> On Mon 12/01/09 11:05 PM , Nathan Wajsman photo@frozenlight.eu sent:
>> I am certain he would. In his autobiography, written shortly before
>> his death in 1984, he comments on the then revolutionary notion of
>> digital photography and makes some very positive statements about  
>> what
>> he imagines will be its possibilities. I cannot find the exact
>> reference at the moment, but it is in there.
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.euhttp://www.greatpix.euhttp:// 
>> www.nathanfoto.com
>> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&am
>> p;y=0PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/pawsBlog:
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>>
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I believe that if AA was with us today, he would
>> be an avid  > enthusiast for
>>> Photoshop as his darkroom.
>>>
>>
>>
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