Digital BW, The Print

OMG !!


> From: Djon <westsidemaurice@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:55:04 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Matching Monitor and Print
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> Paul, the profound error that digital technology seductively
> encourages is that there are absolutes in sensory material, such as
> photographs. Data only refer to phenomena, they are not equivalent to
> the phenomena.
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> If you have worked as I have with hundreds of photographers and art
> directors, you know that they all have ephemeral notions of what's in
> their imaged, whether printed, lurking in transparencies or negatives,
> or not there at all except in their skulls.
> 
> Those notions, often a little narcissistic, are noise in this system.
> Limited practical, visual experience with photographic color and
> fundamental Zone System amplifies that noise.
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> Additionally, many digital photographers are f64 anal, they want
> unattainable and impossible-to-define perfection based on invariably
> flawed film or files (nothing is as perfect as they imagine, and if
> they imagine something very specific they cannot achieve it with the
> precision they demand).
> 
> Profiling is a short-term workaround, just like wax cylinders in
> record players: I applaud your willingness to rethink basics.
> 
> I also applaud your writing...you are one of the only people who posts
> coherently on these topics.
> 
> John / Albuquerque
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