[Leica] Tina and Digital (was, Enlarger

[bquinn at sgi.com (Bernard Quinn)]

BD. Fair Enough. Truce?

Barney

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bquinn=sgi.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bquinn=sgi.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of B. D.
Colen
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:34 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Tina and Digital (was, Enlarger

Barney, again, I wasn't responding to your response - I was responding
to
Marc's repeated posts of last night. And I did not, and would not ever
have
the temerity to suggest that Marc shouldn't use his technology of choice
-
whether or not it will allow him to achieve his creative ends. His life,
his
choice.


On 2/7/06 2:08 PM, "Barney Quinn" <bquinn@sgi.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> I think that Marc should use whatever kind of photographic technology
he wants
> to
> use. It's his art, and his prerogative to make what ever choices will
enhance
> his
> work and allow him to achieve his creative ends. If he doesn't like
digital,
> then
> he shouldn't use it. I'll go a step further and say that I, too, am
one of the
> people who wonder about what seems to be a shift from film to digital
on this
> list. But, I don't want to get into that. I think that it is fair to
say that
> we
> are a leica-centric on-line community rather than  a strict
leica-users group.
> But, that's OK with me. I think that the diversity on this list is its
> greatest
> strength.
> 
> I am not one of the Alpha members of this list. I never will be. I
don't even
> want
> to be. I don't often know enough about anything on this list to be
able to
> comment
> on it intelligently, so I don't. Perhaps I misunderstood. My reading
of
> yesterday's thread on this subject is that Marc had asked several
times what
> RIP
> meant. I thought that he was asking because he wanted to know. I can't
tell a
> NOOKY from a ROOKEY. But, it just so happens that I do know something
about
> image
> processing and computing. I thought, as a fair exchange for all the
> information I
> have gained from this list and for which I have never paid a fee or
made a
> contribution in return, that I would offer what I could in the way of
an
> explanation. If I have wasted the groups time, I am sorry. But, my
attempt at
> an
> explanation didn't come easily, and it was my attempt to give the
group what
> benefit I could of my years of experience, just as those who have had
years of
> experience in photography have offered theirs.
> 
> Barney
> 
> 
> 
> "B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
>> Okay, I wasn't going to post this unless this started up again
today...but
>> since it has....(and all due respect to you, Barney :-) )
>> ...
>> This is perhaps the single most inane thread ever to take up LUG
bandwidth.
>> :-)
>>  Tina is not a techie. I am not a techie. Ted is not a techie, nor
are most
>> of the hundreds of other people on this list who have figured out -
mostly
> 
> 
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