Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] squabbling over digitial vs. film
From: Feli di Giorgio <feli2@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:20:49 -0700

On Thursday, Aug 7, 2003, at 10:59 US/Pacific, Afterswift@aol.com wrote:
>
>
> If there's anything I know about Adams, it's that he was 
> commercially-minded
> as well as quality oriented. Even now The New York Times sells only 
> freshly
> printed B&W silver pictures for $195 each from their archives. No 
> collector at
> the turn of the 21st century in his right mind will buy digital 
> prints. Adams,
> well aware of that fact and who is customers are, would not play games 
> with
> the market. He would be producing his traditional prints and getting 
> very
> well-paid for them. He was conscious of the bottom line.

But isn't it more than that? It takes a hell of a lot more skill and 
experience to
make a print like Ansel Adams did the traditional way, than in 
Photoshop...
You're not going to find too many people that can do what he was able 
to do and that
commands a price.

Feli


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