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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Will we be obsolete? More...

2005-06-29 by Scott McLoughlin

Right on. Nicely said.

Tyler Boley wrote:

>
>
> Photography tools evolved for decades and decades to the point where
> we could capture pretty much anything we wanted, and this makes the
> art of photography more and more compelling. If it's there, and sparks
> some idea in a brain, a skilled imager can make it happen for us to
> consider.
> Do we really want to so rapidly abandon these hard won tools, so the
> manufacturers like Agfa drop as fast as we are witnessing, and thereby
> suddenly limit the actual pictures we can make? I don't want to go
> backwards, I want to be able to make any image I want. And what really
> pisses me off, is that those choices have been taken out of my hands.
> This evolution is happening in spite of us users, not for us, argh!!!!
>
> I could not have made this image with the technology touted today.
> Tyler
>

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