Digital BW, The Print

Photography is a great pleasure in my life and that is what this forum caters 
to. Audio is also great fun but is work as it has been a major part of my 
career. So I'd really like to see folks stay away from the vinyl disc Vs CD 
analogies. They don't hold up.

Without getting into personal credentials, I can state for a fact that the 
current CD standards were known at the time of their creation to NOT cover 
the audio spectrum as capably as professional analog technologies of the 
time. It's more than an issue of "warmth." The success of CDs has been the 
result of good old fashion marketing and industrial competition - not 
fidelity - the same was true in the early transition of cylinder records to 
flat discs. CD's didn't scratch as easily, were smaller and more convenient 
and powerful labels were able to get important artists to produce in this new 
format. 

What this has to do with photography from my perspective is that it too is a 
field with many myths and diverse thoughts. Isn't that great! Creativity!

Bill


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