Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
"flyfishingusa2002" <tflyfish@c...> wrote:

> If you really knew how to use a digital camera, you would leave 
> these things behind. I wouldn't mind betting that if Ansel 
>Adams was still around he would have gone all digital some 
>while ago. 

Oh, dear...I believe reality has gone on the blink again.

Ansel was working before digital. He dealt with it, and so should 
we. There has always been more than one "way" in photography, 
and digital is yet one more way, and as legitimate as any other - 
no more, no less. An 8x10 Deardorff isn't the key to the Magic 
Kingdon; neither is a Canon EOS 1D (and, yes, I've tried the 
latter, though not the former, alas). The picture in your mind's 
eye, however, *can* be. It's getting it onto the paper that's the 
fiddly bit.

And I think that's  the bottom line of the group - how the "many 
ways" can best lead to The Print (whichever print that happens to 
be for eash of us) which we can display, exhibit, and - hey! - even 
sell.  We can (and will...trust me) differ on printers, inks, 
drivers/RIPs, computers, monitors, OSs, and even portfolio 
cases. But we can, and should, make room to respectfully agree 
to disagree, and keep our mind's eye on the goal: The Print.

Share and Enjoy,

Barrett