Digital BW, The Print

Paul, many good comments. Thanks for your perspectives.

I knew AA very slightly ... I considered him a very successful
commercial photographer. 

Richard Avedon and Robert Capa and many others were AA's equals, and
interestingly some spent zero time in the darkroom. They found ways of
working and then worked. Like Ansel, many had assistants who did much
of the printing. Suggesting, I suppose, that the printmaking aspect of
this work may be different from the art, and even from photography itself.

I'm certain Ansel would have been a digital early adopter, just as he
was with Polaroid...he understood scanning and lithography in
considerable technical depth before he passed.   

John Kelly


> 
> >... I still think you are using the Zone System basically; ...
> 
> Yes, you and the others are correct.  I just prefer language that is
more
> directly related to current technology.