Digital BW, The Print

Completely agree with you there.

That is why I am now selling dated "vintage" digital prints!

"Vintage Digital Prints" you ask? 

Yes...as the digital time line is an exponential timeline...(what was that called...the x factor...no it is that guy who invented the IC...what's his name...N---something...)  

Anyway...since digital progresses so quickly...any digital print that is one year old is (by dog years) already "vintage" in my book (grin)!

Some fun, 

Steadman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Martin Wesley 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] B&W Magazine "drops" digital prints


  Steadman,

  This is essentially an untenable position on their part and a betrayal of
  the interest of their readers. Now is the time to collect early digital
  prints. You have to be rather thick to not realize that eventually digital
  is going to be a very large and important B&W medium and the very first
  efforts will be small in number, much sought after and highly valued.

  Time will render the proper verdict on their decision. In the meantime I bet
  they don't turn down any ads by photographers selling digital prints!

  Martin Wesley


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Steadman Uhlich" <steadmanuhlich@...>
  To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
  Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:09 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] B&W Magazine "drops" digital prints


  > Hello,
  >
  > This is just a short news item for you....the recent issue of B&W magazine
  (for collectors of fine photography) has dropped digital prints.
  >
  > In his letter to readers, the editor in chief says that digital prints do
  not have the tradition, heritage, and well....some other qualities he thinks
  important for collectors...given that they are made by "machine" and not in
  a traditional manner.  So...from now on...this mag will not have any
  articles or feature any discussion of digital prints.
  >
  > Too bad he doesn't realize the hours I spend on making a single great
  print...the sweat and the frustration of dealing with the technical issues
  to get it perfect.....the multitudes of "not-perfect" prints that I throw
  away...the attention to detail and the careful use of archival papers and
  inks...and the creativity involved not only in the image making but
  also...gasp...in the printing itself!   Yes...it is hard to make perfect
  prints....very hard.  Despite the best of tools and the best
  techniques...perfection is always hard....and sometimes unobtainable.
  >
  > Despite this...at least one of the profiled photographers says in his bio
  how important the traditional process is to him and his photography....and
  then at the bottom of the page offers to sell his prints as "giclees
  starting at....$xxx"  so...
  >
  > Comments?
  >
  > Steadman
  >
  >
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