Digital BW, The Print

SNIP from Larry,

> a case for using ONE film, ONE developer, ONE set of lenses, for 
ones entire career as a black and white photographer. i read that 
brett weston was so familiar with his materials and had such an 
ability to gage light that he did not use an exposure meter and never 
made a test print in the dark room.>

(have my doubts about the test print thing but won't speak as an 
expert there.  You BECOME that familiar with a product...which does 
support the statement by Larry and Harvey)

Edward was more renown than Bret for knowing light AND doing things 
simply to show people were wrong about their conventions of light and 
photography.  Also BOTH of them used a NUMBER of Cameras and lens 
combinations.  Perhaps a better one lens/camera user example is of 
course Cartier-Bresson, or even Atget.


.>of course in our situation technology is racing ahead and we are on 
the cutting edge. things change fast and
we have to keep up>

People don't always realize that the Weston's were also on the 
Cutting edge, since silver based paper as we commonly know it was 
introduced in the 20's (I may be a little off) and an influence for a 
mid-style/career shift for Edward to use the 'new' paper.

Sincerely (& not trying to be a snoot)
Cleavis