Re: wondering

All I can say is HUH???

I don't get it. Maybe that's why I make sure to keep my photographs and my
computers very far away from each other.

Are you saying that digital folk are just as obsessed with CCD's and KPT's
as I am with aluminum foil, black tape boxes and plastic chemical containers
of all shapes and sizes?

Lisa

> I must desagree with you, Lisa. the digital darkroom is a totally
> different experience. Let's try to take a look at this subject from a
> perspective of ten years in the future. Photoshop and similars were
> first invented from the reference in the material world of silver plate
> behaviours, etc., but the digital deals with different atoms that we
> call pixels, and I believe it will grow even more different as the years
> go by.
>
> In phisical photography we are totaly envolved with the camera and the
> nature of film and paper.
> In digital photography we have the lenses (or not, the astronomical
> digital cameras are pinholes) AND the CCD, which is a chip.
> A chip captures what its software tells it to capture. it may capture
> heat or infrared or whatever set of lightwaves we wish.
> can you imagine if Kay Krause would program a CCD? (Krause invented the
> out-of-earth plugin KPT and Bryce).
> I believe that the CCDs we have today are only little kids playing the
> regular human eyes game.
>
> I have built a pinhole from my digital sony DSC-70, I saw the CCD, it is
> a beautiful piece of blue cristal.
>
> []s
> luish
>
> http://www.ignore.com.br
>
>
> an Ansel Adamss
>
> Lisa Reddig wrote:
>
>> OK, I'm gonna be the PHOTOSHOP BAD person.
>>
>> I don't understand why so many people think working on a computer is easier
>> than working in the darkroom. They will spend hours and hours dodging and
>> burning and sharpening in front of a monitor, while complaining about how
>> hard it is to do it in the darkroom. Why should I sit in front of a
>> computer for hours to do what I can do sitting in a darkroom for hours?
>> Some people are hesitant to make the switch because it is not a necessary
>> switch. It is just a preference.
>>
>> Lisa
>>
>
>
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Received on Tue Dec 10 11:34:11 2002