Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe I will be dismissed or ignored like Cassandra, but I want to speak out against making files from a digital camera "look like" something else, e.g., some film-developer combination. I am not old enough to know this first hand, but when photography first hit there were folks who tried to make photos look like paintings. I believe that William Mortensen was in that group, and this earned him the enmity of Ansel Adams and others in the f/64 Group. Similarly, I feel that the desire to make a digital file look like film is misguided. Just use a film camera if that is what you want (and I hasten to add that you all do a bang up job producing film images). We should be exploring what can be done with digital that would be impossible or difficult with film, and exploit those differences to create something new. We should embrace digital display too, and stop worrying about making prints on our Epson printers that "look like" they are silver prints. Off my soap box now. Your comments, disagreements, agreements, etc., are really appreciated. Bob Rose