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Subject: [Leica] was iso 100.000+?? now photo quotes
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:49:20 -0700
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On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:52 PM, charcot wrote:

> People often ask how can I shoot film esp. on vacation as I won' t  
> know if "the shot" came out.  Then it's a discussion of bracketing  
> which causes their eyes to glaze over.  I'm doing a project with  
> Kodachrome and I rather like the suprise I get in the mail box when  
> I get a package from Parsons, Kansas.


that was a wonderful part of the film experience that cannot be  
replaced,


hey, wait a minute, it can be replaced...just put those SD cards in  
the drawer for 7-10 days,


Steve


>
> ernie
>
> David Rodgers wrote:
>>>> My favorite quote from either Winogrand or Freidlander is:
>>>>
>>
>> " I photograph things to see what things look like photographed"   
>> when asked why he was a photographer.<<
>>
>> Interesting. I never heard that before. But there's something to it.
>> I wonder what those guys would think about digital photography. The
>> gestation period of a digital image is about a second. Compare that  
>> to
>> whichever one of the above had 60,000 undeveloped images in his  
>> estate.
>>
>> There's something to be said for having to wait to see what a  
>> photograph
>> looks like. Imagine if the gestation period for humans was one day
>> instead of nine months. I'm guessing it would take some anticipation
>> caused excitement out of the delivery. But there's also such a  
>> thing as
>> waiting too long.
>> I've still got a couple of rolls of BW film that I shot in the 70's  
>> but
>> are still undeveloped. They're my own personal time capsules.
>> Dave R
>>
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