Digital BW, The Print

Maybe I'm drawing the analogy too far but, there has
been more development of analog playback (turntables,
cartridges etc) since the advent of CD than ever
before because the people who care supported the
industry. We realized the "horrible" sound of CD
compared to quality analog so we continued to buy in
spite of ever rising prices for such gear. Now in 2005
vinyl again represents a very substantial market. NOt
in percentage terms of course because
non-discriminating i.e. non-educated listeners can buy
CD for such rock bottom prices so that dominates the
market statistically. Anyway, my point is that so long
as there is tremendous advocacy there will be film.
Fuji, for one, is not going away anytime soon. But our
choices sadly will be limited.

Three cheers for the re-emergence of Ilford!!

Woody Spedden

--- Martin Carrington <martinc@...> wrote:


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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
> >




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