RE: [Leica] Fw: A priceless comment

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

It's precisely the same level of magic, Mark - just different scientists
accomplishing it - one is chemistry, the other is computer science; the
romance or magic is obviously in the mind of the beholder. I don't find
anything magical about what chemicals can do to paper exposed to
light...on the other hand I find what the computer can allow me to do -
in many areas, quite magical, and that's probably a function of my being
in awe of the folks who are able to turn strings of ones and zeros into
gorgeous photographs, messages that circle the globe, etc.

B. D.

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Fw: A priceless comment


><Snip>  would point
> out though that I find amusing your description of digital photography

>as seeming "not a little bit like magic" - given that one so often 
>hears  the traditional darkroom process described in precisely those 
>same  words.
> :-)
> 
> B. D.
> 
An image coming out of the Dektol is black magic if ever i saw it. I
never got over the first time I saw it happen.

Computers are fun. But I don't go down on my knees thanking god about
them nor worrying if the Devil is hanging out over my right shoulder. If
it's magic it's magic that was done in a software lab somewhere else at
some other time. I am just now seeing some of it's results. 

But I'm the one making the picture develop real time as i wiggle it
having mixed up the soup and poured it out and inadvertently breathed
some of it. Real time magic happens in the darkroom.

Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.rabinergroup.com
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