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In article <>, Alfred
Molon <> wrote:

> I had a chat today with a young lady who has studied photography. She
> mentioned that nowadays there is a trend among, how to say, let's call
> them "high end photographers" to use film instead of digital, because
> supposedly with film you can do things you can't with digital.

some photographers might want to use film to be unique, anything you
can do with film can be done with digital.

note that they'll never say what those things you supposedly can't do
with digital are.

> To me this sounds a bit like those purists who use vacuum tube
> amplifiers instead of solid state ones, because as far as I know
> anything which you can do with film can be done with digital. Supposedly
> film is more tolerant for overexposures, but with digital you can for
> instance use HDR to extend the dynamic range. And all other colour and
> exposure effects should also be doable with digital, shoudln't they?

basically yes. there are a lot of people who still think film is the
only correct rendition, and are completely blind to the fact that
digital is much better. what's really bizarre is that they want digital
to be 'film-like', but never mention *which* film.

the same crap happened with cds versus vinyl records. some people liked
the 'warmth' of vinyl, which really meant 'the distortion i'm used to'.

In article <>, Eric Stevens
<> wrote:

> Printing is the weak end of the digital process.

no it isn't.

> That's why people
> such as Ilford offer monochrome printing services such as
> http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/about
>
> Unfortunately they can't do the same thing with colour printing
> http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/...color-printing

they're selling something, so they're going to claim their way is
better.

prints have been done digitally for years, even if you shoot film. the
negative is scanned and then printed on actual photo paper, exposed by
lasers.

<http://www.pccolour.com/services_lambda.html>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightJet>

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:16:18 +1200, Eric Stevens
<> wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:05:46 -0700, nospam <>
>wrote:
>
>>In article <>, Eric Stevens
>><> wrote:
>>
>>> Printing is the weak end of the digital process.
>>
>>no it isn't.
>>
>>> That's why people
>>> such as Ilford offer monochrome printing services such as
>>> http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/about
>>>
>>> Unfortunately they can't do the same thing with colour printing
>>> http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/...color-printing
>>
>>they're selling something, so they're going to claim their way is
>>better.
>>
>>prints have been done digitally for years, even if you shoot film. the
>>negative is scanned and then printed on actual photo paper, exposed by
>>lasers.
>>
>><http://www.pccolour.com/services_lambda.html>
>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightJet>
>
>How come you are agreeing with me?

You can be assured that any time he agrees with anything, he misread
what was said.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

On 8/22/2012 9:25 PM, tony cooper wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:16:18 +1200, Eric Stevens
> <> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:05:46 -0700, nospam <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <>, Eric Stevens
>>> <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Printing is the weak end of the digital process.
>>>
>>> no it isn't.
>>>
>>>> That's why people
>>>> such as Ilford offer monochrome printing services such as
>>>> http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/about
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately they can't do the same thing with colour printing
>>>> http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/...color-printing
>>>
>>> they're selling something, so they're going to claim their way is
>>> better.
>>>
>>> prints have been done digitally for years, even if you shoot film. the
>>> negative is scanned and then printed on actual photo paper, exposed by
>>> lasers.
>>>
>>> <http://www.pccolour.com/services_lambda.html>
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightJet>
>>
>> How come you are agreeing with me?
>
> You can be assured that any time he agrees with anything, he misread
> what was said.
>
Or he forgot what he originally wrote.

--
Peter