William Robb wrote: > From: "Scott Loveless" > >> http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article1343516.ece > > The last line is a hoot. > > "Do you think Ansell Adams would have used digital?" > > I believe in the last revamp of "The Negative" that Ansel edited before he > died, he wrote about how exciting the age of digital was going to be, and > how it would revolutionize photography. > He wrote, knowing that he wouldn't live long enough to see the changes > digital would bring to photography, but with a curious interest in the new > technology, and a wistfulness that he wouldn't get a chance to see it > mature. > > So yes, I am quite certain that Ansel Adams would have not only used > digital, he would have embraced it, and I think digital would have been > better off for it, in the same way that film was much improved by Ansels's > advice to the film industry.
Yep, I laughed at the ignorance of that line too. At the George Eastman house you can see a video of Adams in the last years of his life, working with students and talking about his enthusiasm for "electronic" photography. At the time, it was analog, not digital (basically still video), but he quite openly states that he sees it as the future and he's clearly excited about it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
