At 02:18 PM 9/26/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I was talking to my friend, the one that got me into photography in the first
>place, he's an aerospace engineer. We talked about the irony of the digital
>age.
>
>"The ultimate goal of digital, is to replicate analog." Isn't that ironic??
>CD's goals are to sound like an analog signal, and digital picture's goals are
>to look like an analog picture. So if I have analog already, why do I want
>digital??
Because I never just "want analogue." I want analogue plus, which means I want
the ability to manipulate it, which I used to do quite imperfectly in the
darkroom. At my best, what I can do in Photoshop simply annihilates whatever I
did in the darkroom. I can express myself better. And digital = analogue when
your perceptual system (eyes, ears) no longer can tell the difference. We're
getting there for digital photography -- I've been there for some years with
digital music.
Garth
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