Digital BW, The Print

I LOVE the D60 Digital camera. I have 3 images stitched together in
photoshop of some birch trunks size 12x36 inches. The quality is very
close to a 4x5 print. This camera is so good, I'm selling all my film
cameras. And next spring, there will be a 12 megapixel canon. Can hardly wait!

Jerry



Alan Zinn wrote:
> 
> At 09:11 PM 11/17/2002 -0000, you wrote:
> >--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Tom O'Connell"
> ><TomOC@s...> wrote:
> >and although he sees progress for what it
> >> is, he loves silver prints and wants to dedicate his publication
> >to
> >> them exclusively. It may sound like antagonism toward digital,
> >but
> >> after my dialog with him, I think all of his decisions are based
> >on a
> >> positive affinity for silver not anything anti-digital
> >
> >------
> >
> >Bullshit.
> >
> >If that's the case, and he wants to "dedicate his publication" to
> >silver, then he should also instruct his advertisers of that
> >viewpoint as well, in that, they should make no mention of digital
> >technology in any of their ads. I guarantee you one thing -- he
> >would get REALLY clear on exactly how he felt about digital, if he
> >had the cojones to make that statement. Again, you're either "in"
> >or your "out"; you can't have it both ways.
> >
> >It's really such a silly philosophy, and I'd bet one that's driven very
> >much by collectors, and advertisers (the silver-based
> >Tree/Rock/Root photographers who are freaking out about the
> >future of their income). It's just so transparent. You just bought
> >into his dramatic justification; that's all. You just TRY to look
> >yourself in the mirror tonight; you wont' be able to.
> >
> >And like someone else said, Is it "digital" if it was shot with a
> >slimy D60 digital camera, but then output to an enlarged contact
> >negative, and then printed in gum bichromate, in a monastery
> >darkroom in the Himalayas, by the Dalai Lama himself? Or, is it
> >"digital" if it was shot with Ansel Adams' own 8x10 Deardorff, with
> >filmstock stolen from Ansel Adams' own refrigerator, but then
> >scanned on a Cruse scanner, but then output to an Epson
> >9600?
> >
> >The lines are so fuzzy that making the line in the sand between
> >the two technologies is just silly.
> >
> >And is it not just as evil for a computer-driven enlarger to have
> >particpated in the making of the silver print? And what if the
> >"artist" doesn't even make his own prints, but he sends them out
> >so that some eyebrowed-pierced, dope-smoking teenager who
> >works in a commercial lab can actually "create the art" for him?
> >Talk about ludicrous; now THAT is ludicrous...
> >
> >The more I think about it, the madder I get. I wish I'd waited til
> >now to write that Henry guy my letter. It certainly would have
> >contained different language. I'm not even a subscriber, and still
> >I want to unsubscribe.
> >
> >-MT, http://marktucker.com/
> >
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Photography has survived countless purity purges. That, more often than not,
> limits those true believer's quality of thinking and seeing. I agree with
> Tim. I think the mag is a generally boring sales piece for interior
> decoration art.
> 
> I see no logic or ethical principle in your doctrinaire insistence on
> advertizing purity. Why should it be a Black and White issue?
> 
> AZ
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