Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's a fascinating observation. I really never thought of it that way. Scott George Lottermoser wrote: >>>>The only thing that is different about digital photography >>>>is that rather than striking a chemically sensitized medium, the >>>>light entering the camera strikes an electronic sensor - end of >>>>difference. Photography is photography is photography. >>>> >>>> >>Again, from the "capture" phase only...right!...but as far >>as that being the "only thing that is different" on the >>whole, well.....I think not. >> >> > >Last evening I watched a tv segment on the Corbis (formerly Bettman) >archive. At one point the group, touring the new freezing facility in an >old limestone mine in Pennsylvania, held up a negative from vietnam and >one of them said, "This film was there." It felt like a mini-revelation. >The film was present at the scene and it holds information about its >presence there. The digital memory was also there but it won't hold the >information for posterity. It will do that again and again. And that's >cool. But something very different from the piece of film being at the >scene and holding that information for as long as its preserved. > >Fond regards, >G e o r g e L o t t e r m o s e r, imagist >---------------------------------------------------------- >Presenting effective messages in beautiful ways > since 1969 >---------------------------------------------------------- >web <www.imagist.com> >email george@imagist.com >voice 262-241-9375 >address 10050 N Port Washington Road > Mequon, WI 53092 > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >