Digital BW, The Print

Barrett,

Notice how people shooting digital shot large numbers of images. They 
need 1 Gig flash memory cards or micro drives. I've never shot that much 
35 mm film (when I shoot 35 mm film) in at one time in my life.

And the time, labor, patients that goes in a 4x5 - I'm not sure the guy 
with a new digital camera would understand. Hey, just shoot 500 shots 
and sort it out in the computer. Not that I have anything against 
digital photography, it's a new mode and it has it's it's good points 
and bad points. However, I feel a little sorry for those that have never 
seen the image - appear on a ground glass of a 6x6, 6x9 or better yet a 
4x5 so they can see the endless possibilities that lie there in B&W.

Truman

Barrett Benton wrote:

>
> There's also a "digital" mindset in action, I feel, where
> expediency trumps any previous aesthetic in place, especially as
> photography becaomes absorbed into the casual "Hey, it's all
> media to me" mix of mass entertainment/diversion (won't get
> started on *that*, but let's just say I'm a fan of Neil Postman and
> Jerry Mander).