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Re: [Digital BW] Scanning 35mm vs digital camera

2006-03-25 by cloudswimmer7774

Man I hear this all the time.Mostly at DPreview dot comm.Is digital
capture really now a match for 8x10 BW film in fine art?I live on the
Calif. coast and frequent quite a few galleries.I have yet to see a
digital captured BW image that drops my jaw like Brett's stuff shot
with his old Calumet C-1, or Ansels large 8x10 stuff.I'm not totally
convinced these guys would be capturing with digital.





>
> It's worth something. Not a single one of the photographers you
> mentioned, if they were in the prime of their career would NOT be
> shooting digital capture, especially Ansel Adams. He told us himself 
> decades ago before he died that he wished it was available to him
> then. It wasn't.

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