On Sep 18, 2005, at 4:29 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
On the second thought (is there such an expression?), I keep thinking about Shel's comment on my b/w conversions... They look invariably digital. It seems the same case here... I don't mean that as a critique, just an observation.
I'm curious as to what you're observing, however. How do they look "digital"? What characteristics are you responding to?
It occurs to me now that it has to do with the differences in film and digital response curves... Digital is very rigid, probably quite linear and very different from film. It is not bad or good, just different.
My own feelings are that digital is at least as flexible as film with regard to exposure and rendering. It is, however, a different medium with different requirements in exposure and a wholly different processing/rendering methodology.
Godfrey
