[pure-silver] Re: Update On The Digital-Film War
- From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:15:08 -0500
On 09/17/2016 09:55 PM, Gmail Robert Randall wrote:
One thing I miss about analog is the random surprises that sometimes kept me
on the edge of my seat. There simply aren't any surprises with digital
photography, at least on a commercial set.
I was around, working in recording studios, when synthesizers first got to
be a big deal. In the beginning, musicians bemoaned that "these machines"
would replace acoustic instruments. What happened, of course, is that
electronic music became a thing in its own right and Steinway is still
making magnificent pianos.
By analogy, I see this as being the case for digital photography as well.
It will never fully replace analog as an art form - they look too different.
They're simply two related - but different - art forms.
I think this is especially true when you consider output media. If you're
shooting tabletop product or ad work, it makes little sense to shoot 8x10
film to then be later printed in a magazine or - worse still - displayed
in RGB on a generic IPS computer screen. But I have yet to see an inkjet
that remotely approaches a silver print's sheer beauty. (That could be
because I've not remotely seen the very best ink output available.) For
all the improvements the ink sprayers have made, there is still some metamerism
and similar artifacts that I find aesthetically offputing.
One of my longer term goals is to figure out a cost effective way to scan
a negative at very high resolution - manipulate it digitally - and then produce
a corrected negative, purely for the purpose of making fine silver prints.
I know this can be done, but the "cost effective" part is elusive.
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