[Leica] silver vs pixels

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

I guess that sort of expresses my feeling as well. When sitcoms started
using tape instead of film back in the "All in the Family" years, I didn't
like the effect. It WAS a cleaner and brighter *live* look, but it seemed to
lack an inherent mass that film gives the impression of having. I think
Robert Capa's pictures show a lot of grit and substance that would have been
lost had he been using digital back then (not that he had a choice). I like
the denseness of B&W silver halide, not to mention its archival qualities
(particularly after a hard disk crash in 2004 destroyed every digital image
I had taken up until then.

I just hope someone, anyone, will keep making silver halide B&W film.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




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Subject: [Leica] silver vs pixels


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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