Digital BW, The Print

The people I know who take photography seriously don't shoot 500 
digital images.  They may be more tempted to experiment more since it 
doesn't cost alot, but that is a good thing.  I for one find it very 
hard to experiment with a 4x5"... good to experiment with a digital 
and then if the image is promising enough to go back with the 
4x5" ...of course the digital image is often good enough:)

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Truman Prevatt 
<tprevatt@m...> 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).