Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Don't judge the "maturity of digital photography" by the discussion
on this
> forum.  By its very nature, this forum is a technically oriented
group.   

Yes, of course...this forum is VERY valuable at this stage of
evolution...the cutting-edge technical focus is critically important.

>Photography and print production has never been static. 

Au contraire :-) silver printing as a craft was nearly static by
Weston's time...just as were large format cameras. I don't think
there's been important advance.

  Mediums
> always evolve.  Some just faster than others.

Right. I think the inkjet medium is nearly mature, like PS7 or earlier
was several years ago, or like Epson inkjets were several years ago.
In other words, they can do almost everything that most photographers
want already. Extremely demanding photographers want more, so advances
will happen at the edges once we get past the current "DOS-equivalent"
stage.

> 
> Steve

When speaking of digital photography soon becoming "mature" I'm not
referring to evidence here, I'm referring to general chatter on
photo.net and other less advanced forums.

> 
> > From: Djon <westsidemaurice@y...>
> 
> > We'll know when digital photography is mature when there's less talk
> > of workflow and technical matters, more talk like Weston's about the
> > juicy human stuff, about which traditional photography has long been
> > more concerned (Avedon, Salgado, Capa, HCB etc etc etc).
> > 
> > Djon