Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Meta Photokina - warning! heretical contents!
From: John Brownlow <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:30:36 -0400

on 20/9/00 10:11 pm, David Binder at dbinder@sympatico.ca wrote:

> I really think that if all you are doing with digital imagery is
> squeezing out a gazillion shades of grey, then you are not having fun
> yet. Not that Jon Cone isn't doing an amazing job. It's just that you
> can do anything you want with an image in Photoshop, paint programs
> etc., without leaving the computer. Negatives and chromes are
> _documents_. Digital images are whatever you want to do with them. I
> can't help but wonder what goes on now in the coolscan digital world of
> government press in some parts of the globe.

Theoretically, I agree. In practice, when photographers start manipulating
their images 'creatively' in photoshop, they mostly produce sophomoric junk.
I've seen it, you've seen it, we've all seen it. You know I'm right!
- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com