Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/20

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Subject: [Leica] The Negative
From: amr3 at alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Mon Nov 20 12:05:32 2006

>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006
>From: Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] The Negative

>I find the most impressive quality of the film negative or positive
>to be that "IT" was there. IT remains as an artifact that actually
>existed at the exact time and place of the very point-of-view that IT
>represents. There's something quite magical about that concept.
>
>Regards,
>George Lottermoser
>george@imagist.com
................................................................................

I get this magical feeling too.  I think it's why I don't feel comfortable
taking digital pictures for my personal work.  Pixels don't have any weight
(sic) in my philosophy of photography. That piece of film shared my
experience, and we went through the darkroom together.

Even though I have a huge backlog of unprinted pictures, I still can get
pleasure by just looking at the negatives.  And most of my color was on
Kodachrome, so even if I don't project them, viewing a sleeve of 20 slides
excites my eye and memory.

Plus I love using film cameras.

Just added (I hope this isn't truncated):

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Bunnies_AMR.jpg.html

NOT taken at Halloween, but in August!  IIIf and 50mm Summicron.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak
Senior Photographer
Photo Services
Univ. of Wis.- Milwaukee
Information & Media Technologies
amr3@uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/