Digital BW, The Print

All,

OT but the situation is analogous to what happened when CD's replaced 
analog vinyl LP's - good (rare) LP playback equipment far exceeded 
the sound quality of CD and still does, but LP's became marginalized. 

Regards

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Scott McLoughlin 
<scott@a...> wrote:
> 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
> >