Re: Imaging
j.r.anderson (j.r.anderson@mds.qmw.ac.uk)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:50:48 +0100
>At 06:06 PM 960916 +1000, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
>
>>Not all of us have a powerful enough computer,
>>or a scanner, or the software, or a suitable output facility, or enough
>>money to pay someone else to do it all for us for every image we would like
>>to tinker with! This is not a flippant remark, it is meant in all
>>seriousness. I would love all of the above, but my bank would not.....
>
>Look at the record: as electronic photography decreases in price,
>traditional photography increases. Eventually, we will reach a point where
>some pretty terrific decisions will be necessary. (This was true in the late
>19th Century as well, incidently.) I bought my enlarger for about 1/4 the
>price it is today; my new photo-realistic printer is about the same price.
>It is always one's decision which way to go, and we don't always make the
>correct decision......
>
>Sil Horwitz, FPSA
>Technical Editor, PSA Journal
>silh@iag.net
....and it IS a difficult decision! The temptations of the electronic
pathway are great! At present, however, the decision has been taken for me
by those who cotrol my finances (or lack of them).... I'm not trying to
launch anti-electronic hate mail.. far from it! All I wanted to do was
point out that te electronic pathway remains at present expensive. We await
further price falls and new equipment! :-)
Jonathan