Subject | Re: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D |
From | PeterN |
Date | 12/06/2013 15:43 (12/06/2013 09:43) |
Message-ID | <l7snnt02gd7@news6.newsguy.com> |
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Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
Follows | Savageduck |
SavageduckMy point exactly. We were discussing photography, not snapshots.
On 2013-12-06 03:53:35 +0000, PeterN <peter.newnospam@verizon.net>said:PeterNSavageduck
On 12/5/2013 12:46 PM, nospam wrote:nospamPeterN
In article <2013120509390876599-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:nospamSavageduckEric Stevensnospam
The idea that a top line architect wouldn't/shouldn't have an understanding of what he can an cannot do with the tools at his disposal.
that's not what i said.
obviously they need to know how to *use* their tools.
what they don't need is how to *make* the tools, i.e., how to program a computer.
Somehow I think you guys have been using the wrong analogies for a photo NG. Forget about the racecar driver & architect, how about the owner of any digital camera, compact, or DSLR? Do they need to have a knowledge of how to operate a computer to shoot photographs with their digital camera?
no they do not, nor did film users need to know how to process their own film.
Is it your claim that in the film days, a good photo artist did not have to understand the how and why of film. He did not have to understand masking with film, the effect of various chemicals, and light sources on things such as contrast, and grain?
Did you read "GOOD" anywhere to qualify "film users"?
The great unwashed mass of photographers using film, shooting with Brownies, Kodak folders, & Argus C3s would even know what hypo was let alone being familiar with the smells of the darkroom. They probably never had the space for a darkroom, and hadn't even considered learning how to develop and print when there was a guy who could do it for them.-- PeterN
There was also a time when press photographers shooting 35mm, would just drop courier, or mail undeveloped exposed film to the agency, or press room for the photo editor to deal with. As a matter of fact, that is what happened to Robert Capa's 11 D-Day shots for Life. They got screwed up by the technician back in London. There is a rumor/myth that technician, was soon to be a famous war photographer in his own right, Larry Burrows. < http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html >