On 2/8/08, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Loveless" > Subject: Kodak to sell off film production? > > > > 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. > > William Robb
Ansel was already involved in the first baby steps of electronic imaging in the late 70's. There's little doubt he would have absolutely LOVED the control offered by RAW files and modern converters and Photoshop. Thr man loved anything that gave him more control over the final result. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
