Digital BW, The Print

Truman  -
 
I don't yet own a digital camera.  When I do get one (next couple of months), I hope to take the same approach that I take with the 6x9, 4x5, or 8x10.  I just want to do some different things than I have done with film.  I won't be taking the shoot 500 and sort it out later approach.
 
You're right about the joys of seeing a big image on a ground glass.  For me, the image on the ground glass provides the real inspiration.  For that reason, and several others that are associated only with the wet process, I'm glad to see that many institutions are still teaching photography with the wet process.  I do wonder if the digital age will provide the same sense of magic that came with learning the wet process.  And, what effect will that have on the creative processes in photography.  We can only wait an see.
 
Tom Baker
Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@...> wrote:
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).




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