Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUGer Bee Flowers has a number of digital photos on his website which look just fine to me. But I believe these are composite photos created from multiple exposures. The technique is covered in John Paul Caponigro's Advanced Photoshop book published by Adobe Press (if I could have one and only PS book, this would be it, hands down) The technique effectively makes the digital camera tripod-bound, and it's back to bracketing like crazy, but digital photography is still newish and I suppose it'll take awhile for things to sort themselves out. Be thankful that's all we're dealing with: Imagine handling wet glass plates and mercury vapors! As for low-light performance, we could take a cue from astrophotographers and CHILL the imaging chips in our digital cameras to reduce noise; the closer to absolute zero, the better ;-) Jeff >Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:24:53 -0400 >From: "caliguri@rcn.com" <caliguri@rcn.com> >Subject: [Leica] Digital has WON? Not by a longshot >.. .. yet > >BUT at the end of it al, they had one major complaint >about digital (besides the usual we gripe about - >shutter lag etc) but the brightness gamut! It could >not be mage to look as good as a scanned immage or a >film print. Higlights were always blown out, dark >areas were just in the dumps - neither could be >rescued. I just thought it was interesting to see a >bunch of very bright photo neophytes SEE the exact >same thing! All seemed to leave with the impression >that digital is OK for the web, or shoot on a bright >overcast day - but if you want it all, stay with film. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html