Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had the pleasure of meeting Ansel at a party at his house in the mid 70's. He told me that if he had to start over, he would probably be shooting video. leo > ---------- > From: bdcolen > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2003 12:42 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] squabbling over digitial vs. film > > I doubt very much at AA would be shooting digital at this point, other > than to experiment. I have absolutely no doubt, however, that he would > have long-ago abandoned the wet darkroom in favor of scanning his > negatives and doing is darkroom work in Photoshop, where he would have > far more control over his image output than can be obtained in the wet > darkroom. I also have no doubt that there would be an extremely popular, > successful, and stunningly effective line of Ansel Adams Photoshop > plug-ins. :-) > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of > Afterswift@aol.com > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:00 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] squabbling over digitial vs. film > > > In a message dated 8/7/03 9:28:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > > > > Recall that even Ansel Adams predicted the > > > development and the growth of > > > the digital medium. I am sure if he were around > > > today, he would embrace > > > it or at the least try to understand it to see if it > > > would work with his > > > style and type of photography. > ------------------------------------------------ > I have no doubt that Ansel would have given digital a shot. Probably > used the > digital back for the Hasselblad. I can only conjecture that after he had > > given digital a fair chance (fully exploring digital's B&W potential in > every > which way), he would have returned to his standard traditional darkroom > work. > > Adams was a fine pianist, and I'm sure he gave electronic keyboards a > try. I > doubt whether he performed on them. > > br > -- > 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 > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html