Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:41 PM 12/3/1999 -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >Some tools are more pleasant to work with than others, though. A quality >photograph taken with a Canon EOS-1n is indistinguishable from one taken >with a Leica M6 except for the rarest of cases. Can you tell whether I >typed this note in Netscape Navigator on my Macintosh or in pine on my >UNIX host? No, you cannot, except by examining the SMTP email header for >the originating signature. It's the same concept It is not the same concept. There are differences between the two. One being the Internet becomes the filter through which all data gets taken down to basic bits and bytes and then reassembled. If you put a Leica photo through a cheap enlarging lens, the concept holds up. But it falls apart when you use an all-Leica path, such as a V35, or a Leica projector (with Leica or Navitar lenses), a top-quality scanner or a very good enlarging lens. Then the quality is transferred to the final image. Computers are like camera bodies, not lenses. There is no qualitative difference in the use of the body that is directly translatable to the image (other than something like the difference between AF in an F5 and an F4, then with the F5 you'll get more in-focus pictures). Lenses are the opposite. Otherwise, why are we not using the cheapest lenses we can? The answer to that is either quality, or pride of ownership, or it "feels good." Most people use the cheapest computers they can - because there is no difference in the document in the end. Though smart people use Macs for a number of jobs, because it get the job done easier, faster and with the right color calibration. PCs haven't caught up in pre-press/desktop publishing until Windows 2000 is out and working everywhere. By then OSX will be out, and Mac will jump ahead again with a real UNIX (i.e. stable, fast, cooler) alternative to W2K. I think I'll go out and buy a G4! :-) Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch More hay, Trigger? No thanks, Roy, I'm stuffed!