Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Alan and all other Luggers commenting this interesting subject and discussion, First at all I would like to say that IMO is big mistake call the traditionnal photography "Analogic", this word should be properly employed for other processes, the original photography IMO should be call the chemical Photography. The Digital photography is IMO fully useful for professional use, is the immediat picture, it can be send worldwide, they can shot hundreds without changing the film....etc. And it has been too a facility for certain new photographers that they have never used a camera. Of course, for a trip is more comfortable one digital body and many memory cards, but for me, as amateur I can't see for my personnal use any advantage, not in quality, not for economical reasons, not on the instruments - for me complicated electronic systems - always depending of the batteries and the computer and the continuos advance and changes on the technologies, updates etc... The digital allows either B&W / Color..., I don't need this, I look and I see subjects for B&W and other for color. I like take pictures, as George said visualize them previously, my mentality is not neither on the digital picture, in my mentality a negative is something "solid" I can keep, and I love the simplicity of the M's, I'm really not wondering at all an M8. I think that the few we will still working on film we will be as handcraft men. These was my 5 cents.. Saludos cordiales Luis -----Mensaje original----- De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En nombre de amr3@uwm.edu Enviado el: mi?rcoles, 12 de marzo de 2008 6:32 Para: lug@leica-users.org Asunto: Re: [Leica] Not Buying M8 Quoting "Chris Saganich" <chs2018@med.cornell.edu>: > I only try to think about why I have an apprehension about digital > images, even regarding the ones I make. I feel there is something > terribly sinister about the entire digital community and this is disconcerting to me. ............................................................................ .............................................................. Part of it might be the ease of manipulation. My favorite photos are those odd glimpses of life as captured by photographers like Elliott Erwitt. I like knowing a situation actually existed somewhere in the world, and there is a piece of film that was there, and also now exists to prove it. Photos always could be faked, but it took a lot of skill to disguise it. When things are altered digitally, it is like painting, where an artist can add or subtract anything. That kind of constructed photography has never interested me. I like the challenge of trying to get a perfect image from an imperfect world. With digital, any picture can be made perfect, so why even take pictures? Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3@uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information