Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So cynical! ;-) K. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of sam Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 12:36 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Gallery The only thing digital about this image is the flat bed scanner that scanned the print. I'm all for bad-mouthing film in order to get the prices of Leica film gear way down. At which point me and a few like-minded people will buy everything up and wait for the world to run out of sand so they can't make those damn silicon chips. Don't come crawling to me then.... Sam S Eric Welch wrote: > A photo that has potential, but the hair obscures too much, or just not > attractively. There are thousands of permutations that could have been a > bit better to exactly perfect. How many frames of that did you shoot? > This is one situation where digital is handy. Shoot the heck out of it > and keep only the winners. :-) Much less expensive than getting it > perfect with film. And timing the decisive moment much harder than it > looks. > > Even so, it evokes a time 30 years ago of the way girls dressed when I > was in college. > > On Nov 23, 2003, at 10:21 PM, sam wrote: > >> It seems I lost the caption, but I believe the image is up: >> >> >> http://www.leica-gallery.net/-ss/image-56727.html >> >> >> Sam S >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >> > > Eric Welch > Carlsbad, CA > http://www.jphotog.com > > Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. - Will Rogers. > > -- > 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