> > Now the art and tedium has shifted to post processing. > The art has always been in where you point the camera and when you press the button. The tedium has always come afterwards.
I was reminded strongly of this in my RPS workshop yesterday. When I got the first of the RPS distinctions I presented slides, which looked absolutely beautiful projected through a Leitz Pradovitz onto a top class screen. I shot Kodachrome because I loathed darkroom work. With Kodachrome you have to get it right at the taking time, but you know the outcome is going to be superb. I still loathe digital darkroom work, although it's much easier than chemical darkroom work. But since buying a digital camera, which is almost by definition fully automatable, I have become very slapdash at the taking time, which makes it harder to get a high quality end result. I must relearn all my old discipline. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph > McAllister > Sent: 27 October 2008 19:52 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Photowalking with a Digital Native > > 1837 - daguerreotype > Plate cameras from 11 x 14 to 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 > 1840 - calotype > 1851 - wet plate collodion process > 1880 - the dry plate > > 1884 - B&W film (Eastman) > Sheet film cameras from 11 x 14 to 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 > 1885 - Flexible photographic film (Eastman, coated paper) > > 1889 - Transparent plastic film > Roll Film Cameras > 1908 - Color (Lippman Plate) > 1913 - First production 35mm camera, Homeos, a stereo camera (2x half > frame) > and first big selling half frame camera, American > Tourist Multiple > 1914 - First Full Frame 35mm camera, the Simplex > 1923 - First Production run of Leica cameras (30 units) > 1932 - Agfacolor > 1934 - Kodak 135 daylight loading cassette > 1935 - Kodachrome 135 film > 1936 - Agfacolor Neue (all other 'chrome' film) 135 film > 1936 - Exacta 35mm (slr waist level) > 1949 - Contax S (first Pentaprism 35mm) > 1952 - Pentax Asahiflex (slr waist level) > 1957 - Asahi Pentax (pentaprism slr) > 1963 - Polaroid > 1964 - Pentax 'Spotmatic' > > 1981 - Sony Mavica Video to disc (analog stills) Digital > Capture Begins > > 1990 - Kodak DCS 100 Digital to DRAM (1.3 megapixels)($20,000 > modified Nikon F3) > > 1993 - Kodak DCS-40 - a Kodak designed plastic bodied 1.3 MP digital > still camera I won at MacWorld's User Group Breakfast lottery! > > > A short history of how and why we've gone from the art and tedium of > one-off plate photography to the shoot 'em up days of digital. > > Now the art and tedium has shifted to post processing. > > Joseph McAllister > Pentaxian > > On Oct 27, 2008, at 09:48 , frank theriault wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Jaume Lahuerta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> I remember when digital was starting, some praised film because > >> "with film you don't just shoot as if you were using a machine gun > >> but you think before acting..." > >> > >> Well, obviously this is an outdated discourse... > >> ;-) > > -- 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.
