[Leica] silver vs pixels

[dnygr at cshore.com (dnygr)]

I spent some time this week at an exhibit in which some remarkable photos 
were displayed. There were digital and traidional silver B&W prints. Common 
to both was that the high quality of printing that had gone into them and 
that they were all black and white. They looked first rate.

The exhibit gave me a chance to compare both. From afar, both looked great, 
but when I got up close, the digital prints didn't look as great as the 
tradional black and whites. The edges weren't as sharp and the digital 
prints didn't show the texture of surfaces photographed as well. In the 
tradional black and whites, I felt I could feel the grain of the wood 
photographed, feel the texture of the tent pictured. The digital prints 
didn't convey this.

I had felt for some time that while photography is not as hands on as say 
painting, digital photography was even less so. One is much more removed 
from the final product, but I hadn't expected to feel that the final picture 
was seemed more removed.

Doug Nygren 

 
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