Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My sentiments exactly. Nothing compares with seeing you image come up in the development tray. Amen! Greg Guy Bennett wrote: > > Here's the proverbial "my .02" on the digital thread... While it's been > interesting and informative, ultimately, I don't care a fig about it. Why? > > I'm not a pro, and am not subject to pro constraints - I don't have to > worry about which way the market is going, what newspapers and mags will no > longer accept, what photo editors require, etc. I'm an amateur doing this > for my own pleasure, and that for me means: manual camera, prime lenses, > black and white film, liquid chemicals, wet darkroom, actual photographic > paper, etc. The whole digital everything is totally uninteresting to me, > since one of my motivations for making pictures in the first place is my > desire to learn and work with traditional processes. I'm not against > digital photography, realize it is quote the way of the future endquote, > but like many of us on this list, I spend a major portion of my day working > on a computer, and I appreciate turning off the machine and doing things > that are *not* dependant on digital technology. > > Does this mean I will never go digital? > Not necessarily. At some point, my photographic interests may go that way. > > What will I do if manufacturers stop producing analogue anything, to the > point that we're wiping our butts ... I mean our rear elements ... with > digital toilet paper? > I'll deal with that when it happens. > > For now, I'll just follow the debate. As long as film, chemicals, paper, > etc., are still being made (and I personally do not believe that they'll > ever disappear completely, they'll just become less readily available and > perhaps more expensive), I'll continue to use them. If and when that ever > becomes impossible, well, I'll cross that bridge when we get to it. > > Guy > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html