Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Mastery of any technique
From: John Brownlow <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 13:41:07 -0400

on 31/7/00 2:10 pm, Tim Spragens at t.spragens@cityweb.de wrote:

>> ... mastering this chain is gratifying in itself ...
>> ... It would be nice if the
>> proponents of the digital print would try to discuss the
>> digital-chemical print technology as two different, but valid ways of
>> recording and representing an image...
>> ... These
>> crafts are not easily acquired and demand a different approach and
>> mindset that when making a print in the wet darkroom...
> 
> Here Here, Erwin! Well spoken! Adobe has tried very hard to give
> tools that are similar to those that we learned in the darkroom, and
> some learned press room. I work digitally by choice. Some images
> I know would look better in silver prints. Some, I feel, would also
> look better with a press technique. I hope all here can appreciate a
> fine image that started in the mind, was captured by a camera,
> then placed before a public, large or small.

Well, let me just toot my horn for a moment and say that these issues are
meat and drink to the Digital Silver mailing list, which is specifically set
up for photographers working both ends of the medium.

That URL again: http://www.topica.com/lists/digitalsilver

- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com