Re: wondering

computers are "almost occult medium" to many people at my workplace-
otherwise I wouldn't have a job as a computer technician.

When you take the romanticism and emotion out of it, film and computers
are just two different technologies. On the face of it, neither one can
claim to be more "pure" or mystically better able to "capture light".
They are just mechanical processes. Both are capable of great pictures.

I used to have a similar argument with a friend who claimed that music CDs
just could not capture the nuances of sound that were transcribed on his
vinyl LP albums. I suspect that the fact that he had thousands of dollars
wrapped up in his vinyl collection probably made him a little biased!
When you take romantic and subjective opinion out of it, most people agree
that digital CDs are far more capable at capturing the spectrum of sound.
Still, even after all these years, I haven't thrown out my own vinyl LPs,
however, I wouldn't buy one!

I try to choose technologies that just "work" best, in terms of price and
ability to achieve my desired end. I like using film now, and scanning it
later, then printing via inkjet. The reason I use film is, for now, I get
high resolution images for a relatively cheap price. I see a day,
however, when I will drop film altogether- I really don't like futzing
around developing color film. Water baths, temperatures, developing
drums, chemicals, time, scratched film, etc. conspire to make me not even
want to shoot pictures at times!

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 Michelbayard55@aol.com wrote:

>
> Something being lost? The mystery? The
> understanding of an almost occult medium? An atempt to see what light is
> really doing as it hits and wraps around an object? well said Jean.
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Received on Tue Dec 10 11:33:22 2002