[Leica] Moving Stills

[Dan Khong]

Hi Uncle

If I may be so bold as to be intrusive, I’m with you on this one. 

When I was young, courts trusted photos as evidence. We now live in fallen nature and times. 

Dan K

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> On 20 Oct 2017, at 6:47 AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tina,
> All this electronic nonsense is ridiculous! Sure the "new Breed of shooters"
> and probably some of the older ones will see good in all this manipulation
> garbage as "a good thing." But I see it as nothing more than a form of
> "cheating!" A system for a cheap-ass pseudo  "photographer????????????" to
> kind of making he or she looking not bad at all?"
> It indicates he or she is a sloppy shooter. Sure a slight bit of re-touching
> on a portrait much along the minor touch here and there as in the olden days
> portrait world. Is OK. But manipulating photos to the extent shown here
> should be illegal! Well maybe not quite? However, as shown on the screen the
> face can be changed to such an extent you can hardly recognize the person?
> Great for the bad guys of the world these days as they slip about the planet
> killing and bombing people! So OK I'll stop rambling!
> However the manipulation techniques coming upon us are of no use to true
> photojournalists'. Certainly those who shoot what catches their eye- lens
> tripping finger that's given them great careers of several 100,000,s or more
> untouched negatives and transparencies in a National Archives in many
> countries. That otherwise with to-days manipulative systems would not be in
> collections as truthful photos of a countries development over the years.
> As in my case already in the National Archives of CANADA are 280,000 IMAGES
> ALONG WITH ANOTHER 100,000 in the  National Art Gallery of CANADA. It's
> considered the largest photo collection by a single photographer in the
> history to date in Canada. 
> Me? Well I don't think I'll be rushing out to buy a piece of junk in the
> electric world of today!  :-) GOOD LUCK EVERY ONE!
> cheers,
> Dr.ted grant O. C. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Tina Manley
> Sent: October-19-17 6:16 AM
> To: MUGers at yahoogroups.com; Leica Users Group; paw; seephoto; Olympus Camera
> Discussion
> Subject: [Leica] Moving Stills
> 
> PESO:
> 
> This is just plain creepy:
> 
> http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-41668704/still-photographs-spring-to-l
> ife
> 
> Tina
> 
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