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Posted By: Henry Butz (24.185.186.154)
In Response To: Hey Henry!
Location: Long Island, NY
Date: Sunday, 7 March 2004, at 3:57 p.m.
(Doug Lester)
Hmmmm, yes, well "tweaking" isn't the same. Using that argument, Ansel Adams would have abandoned the "Zone System" in favor of variable contrast paper. After all, why bother "tweaking" the contrast of negative when it can be done more easily with a set of Polycontrast filters. But... the Zone System prevailed due to a preservation of spectral bandwidth.
I'm not saying that a digital camera is incapable of producing a black and white image. Rather, today's digital cameras do not have enough spectral bandwidth to accurately reproduce the tone of black and white film. Can they? Sure, they can. Will they? Never. Nobody is going to build a black and white digital camera. You heard it here first.
: As a recent convert to digital, I'm already
: looking forward to some good arguments (err
: discussions). Yeah, a straight conversion to
: B&W gives a fairly flat, lifeless image.
: Sort of like printing a color neg on B&W
: paper, it needs some tweaking. But the
: results can be truly excellent. Whether that
: tweaking is done in the darkroom, with paper
: choices, develpoment times, filters, etc, or
: in the 'puter with P'shop makes little or no
: difference.
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