Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/07

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Subject: [Leica] The negative as positive
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Oct 7 03:14:55 2004

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
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