[LargeFormat] The Big Digit

[menso guk]

I am attempting to install a regular scanner as a film back on my 8X10.
I am sure this will be an interesting JOURNEY>>>>>>>>>>>>

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menso guk
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---- "Marco Milazzo" <mmilazz1@elp.rr.com> wrote:
> Uncle Dick,
> 
> About 1870, prepared oil paints  began to be available to artists,
> freeing
> them from the need to make their own paints.
> Did the quality of oil paintings suddenly improve?    Nope.   Painting
> became more convenient, but as today, painters continued to be divided
> into
> the few "good" and the many . . . well, "not as good."
> 
> Art resides in the eyes, hearts and minds of artists, not in their
> tools or
> their processes.  Wasn't in someone on this list who said that Jerry
> Ulesman's "handmade" montages have never been surpassed, even though
> these
> days, any kid with Photoshop can produce them?
> 
> I expect that eventually, digits will replace most film and chemicals
> processes, but technology will not of itself, replace the art and images
> of
> the thinking, feeling photographer.
> 
> When I look at a beautiful picture by Julia Margaret Cameron or Eugene
> Atget, I never think "What an antique!"  And I never wonder what kind
> of
> camera they used, except as an afterthought -- after I've thought,
> "How
> beautiful!"  or "How touching.!"
> 
> Knickerless Nickleby
> 
> (Marco of El Paso del Norte, Tejas)
> 
> 
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