Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Unaltered RAW the score, PS the performance? There are as few good PS editors around as good printers. > From: Paul <paul@paulhardycarter.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:58:10 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] The negative as positive > > I've never heard that quote from the great man, but it sums up my > approach perfectly. > > I wonder how this fits in with the digital world so many of us now live > in. With film the image is cast in stone, as it were, once it's fixed > and it's than up to the printer to make what he can out of it. > > A digital image never reaches this state, unless you call the RAW image > the definitive version, but even that has usually been manipulated in > the camera. > > So where's the "digital score"? > > P. > > ******* > Paul Hardy Carter > www.paulhardycarter.com > ******* > > On 7 Oct 2004, at 08:07, Afterswift@aol.com wrote: > >> The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print >> the >> performance. --Ansel Adams, photographer (1902-1984) >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------- >> ---- >> I would like to stress the fact that although the prints from the same >> negative can vary, the negative itself remains changeless. And it is >> that true North >> constancy which makes all the difference in the ultimate comparison and >> appreciation of all its prints including the original scene itself. >> --br >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >