Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1 As simple as that, or new "Kiss" as Uncle T says Some yester years? kisses may have been sweeter though ;-) HBD all the same Uncle T, we DO love you here over the pond :-) Heaps of hugs from Alice and I to you and your health Ted. Amities Philippe, and Alice > Le 16 mai 2018 ? 19:33, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> a ?crit : > > Ted, > For most of your illustrious career, you obviously just handed over the > roll of exposed film to a guy in the newspaper/magazine darkroom, and he > did the rest, so I guess that was a perfect KISS. I agree, I would not mind > having such a facility to turn to in these digital times, but > unfortunately, not having one, I am forced to do my own dirty work! ? > > My view is that a RAW image is like an unexposed roll of film, which can > then be processed a million different ways instead of just one fixed way. > Being of a curious bent of mind, and not having to do this for a living, as > well as having ample time to spare, I enjoy tinkering around with myriad > different approaches when processing an image..That is brilliant and > extremely enjoyable. Nothing in the world will let me forego that > flexibility and pleasure as far as photography is concerned. > > By the way, This had to be done twice, when developing and printing, with a > pretty much hit or miss method, with really nasty chemicals, even in the > old days. There was no element of KISS about it, it was hard difficult > work, and any correction was a major PITA! > > Cheers > Jayanand >