On 3/28/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Methinks you're taking this too personally. No one said that what ~you~ do > is or isn't art, and so what if they did. It's just one person's opinion, > one person's perception, one person's feeling about how something (in this > case the digital workflow and process) effects him. If you drove a Ford > and someone said Fords suck, and they hate 'em, and wouldn't be caught > driving one, and much preferred a Chevy, would you be insulted because > someone didn't like your choice of cars. After all is said and done, Kevin > will do what's best and most comfortable for him, you'll continue doing > what works for and is comfortable for you, and we'll all go on doing what > we've been doing. No one attacked or insulted ~you~ from what I've read in > this thread. > > Now, if you want to feel insulted, how's this: your wife is ugly and you > have no taste, your photos and images are crap, you're too short for your > height, and your breath stinks. That's something about which to get > insulted. > > It's not about you, or any person in this thread. It's about how Kevin > feels about a certain process. It is no more wrong for Kevin to feel the > way he does than it is for you to ~feel~ the way you do, regardless of > whether those feelings (yours or Kevin's) are rational, logical, fit within > the mainstream of this list, or are from outer space. > > Shel
I don't know. For myself, I'm expressing a personal preference. I like film, but I've never said that anyone who appreciates (not even prefers, just appreciates) digital is in any way wrong or misguided. Neither have I ever said that digital isn't art, or can't be beautiful or can't produce wonderful prints. However, every time I say how I'm more than satisfied with film, that I like the results it produces, and that I like the process (at least my involvement in the process - or lack of involvement as the case may be), someone jumps in to tell me how much better digital is, and what a luddite I am and how can I say that film is better than digital? I've never said that one's better than the other, I've only expressed a personal preference. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
