Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]==On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com > wrote: > The end product of photography is a print. Or it should be IMO. Getting > from the vision to the end result requires several intermediate steps. The > fact that one of these intervening steps in one of the several techniques > possible to produce a print gives, in somebodies opinion, a superior > potential may make it worthwhile investigating the other steps in that > technique to see what is lacking if the technique does not achieve an > overall superior result. > Since, so far, most photographers producing prints have gone -to- digital > -from- a film workflow they presumably find the results at least equal. I > find them superior myself, but I haven't used more than half a dozen B&W > films since the 1960s, so maybe B&W is different. > OTOH sharpness is not the main thing I look at. > FD > Well stated. Who was it who said "Sharpness is vastly overrated"? --Bob