Digital BW, The Print

On 27 Sep 2004 at 5:05, cjphoto1 wrote:

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> > This wasn't supposed to be a digital vs film discussion...
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> oops!
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Actually it can be, I started the thread, as B&W versus Colour film, but don't mind 
changing the terminology to say B&W versus Colour capture.

> Thanks for all the info. I have struggled with many of these same 
> issues back in the days of film- not from a technical viewpoint, 
> which seems to be your strength, but from an intuitive one. Back 
> when I shot film, (which I have done since 1967) I would look at 
> Bresson's and Winogrands, and other 35mm shooters and then I looked 
> at 4x5 shooters, and then I looked at 8x10's etc. One could keep 
> going on, but at some point we have to just make pictures... it only 
> has to make sense to me from an artistic point of view, ie, a grainy 
> out of focus blurred Cartier-Bresson is far superior to ??? in other 
> words, the sharpness or detail or any other technical aspect finally 
> has to relent to the subjective artistic stuff. (Or does it?)

In many cases B&W is more artistic, whether you like a grainy image like pushed 
Tri-X or a smooth grainless image like Pan-F.  The results are what matter, however 
you can often compensate for some things in post processing with colour capture.  
For example if you want to use a filter, but do not have the filter handy, for the lens 
you using, then you can use Photoshop, or another similar tool, to apply the filter 
later on.   

W








> 
> The same goes for digital. I wanted effective photographs, at 
> whatever res or detail, and this kodak back certainly produces them. 
> I was never able to "see" effectively with a view camera. Despite 
> many attempts through the years, both professionally and for 
> personal work, I could never feel comfortable with 4x5 or 8x10's. 
> This digital camera is relatively fast and easy to use, and gives me 
> images that are artistically successful. 
> 
> So what is next for the digital world? I would love to find a 
> digital back that was truly high resolution and 'detailed'perhaps a 
> cluster of these chips that I have now, maybe a 1x3 array to make a 
> panorama...but until then, I'll keep making images, with whatever 
> camera I have...I remember one of my most successful projects was 
> shot with the plastic Holga. 
> 
> What kind of work do you do? And what format?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
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