On 5 Mar 2014, at 02:12, "Bruce Walker" <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Worse still IMHO is that you must accept the b&w rendering that the > camera applies. That's like using a single film only for all your > shooting and seems awfully limiting.
In a great many creative endeavours, self-imposed (and even externally-imposed) limits can lead to great outcomes. For example, in classical French theatre writers such as Racine worked within very strict limits imposed by the dramatic unities and by the type of vocabulary that was acceptable. I seem to remember my French teacher at school saying that in his entire works Racine used less than 5000 words. Similarly, some of the greatest French plays and drama came about because their writers had to conceal their message beneath layers of meaning in order to avoid censorship. And HCB worked within very strict limits he set himself, and is the defining photographer of the 20th century. Perhaps its a Gallic thing, because Shakespeare did whatever he wanted (within the limits of the sonnet form, of the iambic pentameter, etc). But still, limits are not necessarily a bad thing for a creative person. B > With a colour camera you can use > any of dozens of possible conversion techniques from RAW to b&w and so > get a lot more artistic control over the process. > >> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Bob: Resist! You can use a color camera to take monochrome pix, but you >> can't use a monochrome camera to take color ones. > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- 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.
