Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug- I second your comments re: digital prints vs. wet darkroom prints. You could not have explained it better. Best, Stasys ---- Douglas Nygren <dnygr at cshore.com> wrote: > I'm pretty happy with my M8. It supplements my film camera nicely. The > crop doesn't bother me. Of course, without the crop it would be even > better, but 5.$$$$$$$$$$ better? > > Perhaps the images of the M9 will be sharper, clearer.Great. But I'm > the type who likes not only the sharpness and contrast of the new > lenses, but the look of the 50-year-old ones as well. The different > aesthetics of different periods are like diverse tastes. If the M0 > gives us another taste, great. We'll have one more to chose from. > Nothing wrong with that. But it doesn't mean I have to have one--at > least right away. > > For now, an M6 for film and an M8/8.2 for digital meet my needs. > > Where I would like to see some more progress is in the printing > technology. > > My feeling about digital printing is that it makes fine posters. The > darkroom stuff still looks better. They have the glow that paintings > have. The magic is embedded in the paper. Ink on paper doesn't get the > same effect. That's probably why the painters use paint and not ink by > and large. > > That said I confess I work both in the darkroom and with Photoshop. I > love the control Photoshop provides. If I only had that in the > darkroom. But I also love the look of silver prints. If only my printer > could do that as well. That's why I hope for big progress in printing. > I might also add that negatives always hold more info than you can get > on the print. The paper remains a problem common to both. > > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information