Digital BW, The Print

It doesn't bother me and I am sure your images are amazing.  I was simply
responding to someone who was slandering digital because it needed
electricity.  Different tools for different jobs - some tools have broader
application capabilities than others.  The type or breadth of tools you have
will define the type of work you are able to do.  Simple fact.  I wish I
also had a view camera but 5 cameras is enough for now....


> From: sandersnyc <sandersm@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:28:41 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Digital Camera
> 
> 
> 
> Steve, I appreciate you are writing for entertainment value here.
> But to answer you:  Actually, yes, I have a great deal of fun.
> 
> Every tool -- and a camera in the end is a tool -- every tool imposes
> its own limitations.  In my view of the world, having a tool that is
> self-sufficient is
> liberating in many more ways than it is limiting.  And as a creative
> device, the flexibility
> offered by a view camera cannot be touched by a digital camera.
> Imitated, yes, but not touched.
> 
> Ultimately, every person has to weigh the tools available and choose
> one that best fits his or her creative vision. I choose a world
> without electrical cameras.  Why does that bother you?
> 
> True story number one:  I shoot Polaroid emulsions with hotlights,
> through a 95-year-old
> Dagor lens, with the aperture wide open.  When my model is turned
> away from the camera,
> I swing the front standard to bring the focal plane parallel to her
> face.  This has the effect
> of keeping her face in perfect focus, but blurring other parts of
> her.  For a sample
> (contains nudity) see www.pbase.com/sandersm/image/36078782 .   I
> have 
> received several emails from digital shooters, asking me how I
> blurred the image in
> Photoshop.
> 
> True story number two:  Several people, who have seen my work, have
> written to 
> compliment it, with the caveat that they wish I would stop adding
> those silly Photoshop
> borders into my images.  That's when I have to tell them that it's
> not a PS
> effect, but the actual emulsion of the film itself, that the PS
> effects were designed to
> imitate.
> 
> What this tell me is that I am so old that the people now getting
> digital cameras and
> calling themselves photographers find film such a remote part of the
> past as to be 
> completely beyond their comprehension.
> 
> But I digress.  Granted, Steve, I cannot do many of the things you
> can do with your electric
> cameras.  But there is no way on God's earth you could make my
> images, either.  And it's
> just as well that way.
> 
> Sanders McNew
> www.mcnew.net
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
> <stevekale@b...> 
> wrote:
>> And that in turn will define in the end the sort of photography you
> can
>> do... Have fun.  By the way do you own anything electrical? <g>
>> 
>> 
>>> From: <sandersm@a...>
>>> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>>> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:10:10 EST
>>> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>>> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Digital Camera
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In a message dated 12/9/04 10:53:01 AM, Steve Kale writes:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> You can't possibly be serious!  A courier can carry a DVD,
> memory card or
>>>> other storage device.  Camera power is an identical issue for
> both digital
>>>> and analogue cameras. 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I will not buy or shoot a camera that requires electricity.
> Rolleiflex,
>>> Graflex, Sinar.   Camera power is provided my dry bony fingers.
>>> 
>>> Sanders McNew
>>> www.mcnew.net
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