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Subject: [Leica] silver vs pixels
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon Feb 20 10:23:16 2006

People should stick with whatever they want to stick with. But they
shouldn't make silly statements about whether or not a current technology
will evolve to the point where it will surpass the quality achieved by an
older technology. ;-)


On 2/20/06 12:37 PM, "Luis Miguel Casta?eda" <lmc@interlink.es> wrote:

> 
> On 20/02/2006, at 18:09, Frank Filippone wrote:
> 
>> B+W wet darkrooms will never be surpassed by digital prints.
> 
> I won't say that; future is a very long road, and who knows what we
> will find in the long run... perhaps we will find ourselves blushed
> by our today's  (or yesterday) firm statements. In the same way that
> even the silver papers have evolved during their timeline offering
> distinctive looks from ones to others, they always looked somewhat
> different to kallitypes/palladium/etc. There is about the same with
> digital printing, even more in this early stage.
> 
> Anyway, for B&W I will stick with film and wet prints, now it looks
> finer for me and it adds the sense of handcrafting which I love and
> appreciate;  digital printing simply cannot have it.
> 
> I do understand that others appreciate other ways of printing by
> their own reasons and tastes, right, but presenting the matter as
> "this is the blessed path", "xxxx printing is better (dot)", etc  is
> kinda a child attitude seen quite often everywhere.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Saludos
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