Mark Roberts wrote: > 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. > >
The clueless "director of photography" should be fired. Ansell makes condoms. D -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- 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.
