[rollei_list] Re: why I'm not digital
- From: Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:44:20 -0500
I'm talking about the folks who buy what photographers have to sell...
and about the "gotta be with-it" kiddies who determine their value as
human beings by the "currentness" of their tools. There is this silly
willingness to replace, rather than supplement, what we have achieved in
the last century, with yet another application on a computer screen.
And, for so many, espec the young, it is about attitude. THEIR attitude.
I hybridize. Because the net is a good selling tool, I have a scanner.
Publishers welcome digital files -- they're not the ones talking
schleimscheisse when they find where they originated. I keep my old
birds because I know what I can achieve with them.
The next generation will find me quaint -- so what.
Try a Summicron sometime.
P.J. Nebergall
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:28:32 +0100 James Davis <jamesd@xxxxxxx> writes:
> Peter J Nebergall wrote:
>
> > But quality isn't the big issue. Attitude is. Like pop-
> rock, digital
> > photography is about "right now." Tomorrow, they'll be wrapping
> fish in
> > "right now." Its technology, not art. Remember Windows 95?
> Windows
> > 3.1? DOS? It's Short-Term, baby..... Grab the bucks and run....
> like
> > the yuppies that sell it.
>
> *sigh* this isn't about attitude. I don't care for your Rolleiflex,
> your
> Leicas and your Summicrons. All these are as much about photography
> as
> telescopes are about stars, simply necessary tools. I could swap all
> my
> kit with yours and I'm confident I'd still be the worse
> photographer.
>
> Please don't denigrate any photographer because they produce work
> using
> a digital camera or any other particular tool or technique - judge
> them
> upon their photographs. *Photographs* are exactly what it's about
> and
> all it's ever been about.
>
> I know of no artist who was great only because they used a
> particular
> piece of equipment or used a particular process.
>
> James
>
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