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Re: digital negatives

2001-08-11 by Dan Culbertson

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Stephen Kundell, MD"
> <skundell@p...> wrote:
> 
> At the risk of being booted off this list, I still lust for the look and feel
> of silver 
> prints! 
> 
> That's right, Stephen, that would be grounds for banning you. Now, if you only
> made those silver prints from digitally manipulated negs.....

Then again -- just what does "digital" really mean?  One might say that a
silver print is just a series of black and white dots of various sizes
placed in a standardized rectilinear data plane and it could be seen as just
another medium to store digital information for use with the right reader --
sort of a really big floppy.

Dan Culbertson :-)
Always trying to be inclusive

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