Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeeees, Steve...Have you gone over to the Pixel Side? What are you shooting with? B. D. Steven Alexander wrote: > > on 1/11/01 10:32 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: > > > Odd, but I don't have a single game on my computer, and by using a track > > ball and sitting in a proper chair, I've eliminated the RSI/carpal > > tunnel problems....I'll grant you that I need a pair of "computer" > > glasses set for middle distance, but that's not a big deal....and I am > > sitting in a comfortable, cheerful, lighted room turning out better and > > better prints as I perfect my skills doing with the computer precisely > > the same things I would be doing in the wet, smelly dark...well, that's > > not exactly true...I'm spending a whole lot less time worrying about > > dust, scratches on negs, etc., and I am spending infinitely less time > > when I want to go back and make identical second, third, etc. etc. > > copies of prints I've already made... > > > > Hey, to each his own....and I certainly understand how someone like you, > > who spends his life working with computers, would want another activity > > that would get you as far away from them as possible..;-) > > > > B. D. > Amen. I know your prints up close and personal and will say that they are > as true as any chemical/silver print. I've not used a Leica, film camera > since early December and have therefore eliminated the other part the > darkroom, film processing. I had not printed in the dark for quite > sometime, I used pro labs, but now print on my Epson machines. Daylight has > entered my life and my passion. > > Good pixels/good images, > > Steven Alexander