Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/02

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Subject: [Leica] Altering Digital Files to Look Like Film
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:02:27 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 02 Oct 2012  robert.rose at mac.com wrote:

>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
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That is my sentiment also.  I think to get the film look, make the effort 
and shoot film.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Relations
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate 
for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt


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