Hi Bob,
You make a very valid point. I have a slightly different view, since I have
nothing for sale. I am my only customer, with occasional inputs from my
wife and family. I try new ideas and techniques that are suggested by
others on these forums, but, in the end, only to see if I can improve my
images as I see them.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Bob Whitmire" <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Great Idea - but not today
> Let me put this as succinctly as I can: I don't give a S**T what others
> think they want if what they think is about how I produced what I
> produced. I ain't AA, and I ain't EW. Never have been, never will be. My
> market dynamic is so different from theirs as to be on another planet.
>
> When I said we're hardwired differently, I meant it. You talk about this
> look and trying to match that look and how you can't get the Velvia look
> out of digital and Tri-X has its own signature, etc. That doesn't concern
> me. Wouldn't even try to match it. Doesn't even enter my thought
> processes. In fact, it's been more than a couple of years since I looked
> at my slides. Each and every image is what it is. I process it as I think
> it ought to be processed, whether color or black & white. And you know as
> well as I that good digital processing is not pressing a bunch of buttons
> and moving sliders around. It takes real dedication and a lot of sweat and
> frustration to learn how to do it right. Sometimes I do it right,
> sometimes not. Sometimes I can't get something to work the way I want it
> to so I stop messing with it and come back a year or so later and it all
> comes clear.
>
> I can't speak for others, but at this stage of my life I can't and won't
> serve two masters. I made my choice and I don't regret it; and while I
> admire folks who still work with film, I'm not going to do it, If all the
> film supplies in the world dried up overnight, I'd be said, but it
> wouldn't cost me a moment's sleep. All that Kodachrome hoo-ha a little
> while back? Nothing. Nada. And I used to shoot Kodachrome 25 all the time.
> Loved it. But I don't miss it. Loved my Nikon F bought in Vietnam in 1968,
> but I don't miss it. Loved my Hassy, but I don't miss it. Loved my OM
> stuff, but I don't miss it. Loved my Texas Leica, but I don't miss it.
> Loved large format, but I don't miss it. In fact, I'm getting ready to
> sell the last of my 4x5 gear. All that stuff led me to where I am today,
> and what I use today will lead me to where I will be tomorrow.
>
> 'Nuf said, I think.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On May 11, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>> So, what I'm saying is that getting off the beaten track with our own
>> artsy-fartsy interpretation of a scene may fulfill some internal need,
>> but
>> it may not necessarily be what others are going to want hanging on their
>> walls.
>
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