From: Bob Kiss (bobkiss@caribsurf.com)
Date: 03/10/02-08:12:31 PM Z
And yet, most serious audiophiles and connoisseurs of sound have sold their
solid state/IC amplifiers and are using tube amplifiers for the "Warm"
sound...it is a rage that persists and...wonder of wonders, miracles of
miracles...there are "Berggers" of the vacuum tube world who have gone back
into production on a lovely small economy of scale to feed the
demand...ain't market economics great?
If there are fine things, and in this case I refer to the OBJECT of
art...the fine alternative print...there will be those who appreciate them.
CHEERS!
BOB
----- Original Message -----
From: Joachim <joachim@microdsi.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: RE: The future of the handmade print?
> The same was said of RCA tubes in heterodyne radio circuits - computer
chips
> just can't deliver quite the same broad tonality. I still have a tuner
with
> tubes, and I can tell you the sound IS better, but the difference is not
> worth the hassle of parts replacement and costs - I think the same will
> apply to the argument of dig vs. hand-pulled. We adjust to, and relate to,
> other aspects of the art (aural, visual, intellectual) when the technology
> has to ride in the rumble seat. Joachim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: david distefano [mailto:zfd@lightspeed.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 1:42 PM
> > To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> > Subject: Re: The future of the handmade print?
> >
> >
> > I hearken back to the time when CD's were introduced. Everyone
> > said it was the
> > end of vinyl, records, and they were ALMOST right. But something
> > happened on
> > that road to destruction, quality of sound. If you haven't
> > noticed lately in
> > your electronics store, there is a wide selection of top end(pricey)
> > turntables. Why? From friends of mine who only play vinyl at
> > home, and mag.
> > articles, it seems that the digital cd's produce perfect notes but
unlike
> > vinyl cannot produce the movements between notes to the extent
> > that vinyl can.
> > If you haven't heard today's vinyl on top end turntables you have
> > not heard
> > music. CD's just don't compare.
> >
> > So people who continue to make their own photos buy hand, do not
> > be afraid of
> > the digital future. In America hand made has always been sought
> > after over the
> > commercialistic mass production of anything..
> >
> > Katharine Thayer wrote:
> >
> > > FDanB@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > And I can't tell a diamond from a cubic zirconium...even if I
> > do spit on
> > > > it. ;^)
> > > > That doesn't make them peg the same on the desirability meter.
> > >
> > > Exactly. (although I'm surprised that Dan is the one to say it.) It
> > > seems to me most people have gone off on a tangent on this one. The
> > > question wasn't "Can an inkjet print be beautiful?" or "Can an inkjet
> > > print mimic an alternative print very well?"" or any of the other
> > > well-worn sidetracks about traditional vs digital that this discussion
> > > has veered off on. The question was about the relative value of
handmade
> > > prints vs digital prints in the marketplace, given that adequate
> > > reproductions of original alternative prints can now be made on the
> > > inkjet printer.
> > >
> > > I didn't say, and I don't think anyone said, that all handmade prints
> > > are wonderful and valuable even if the imagery is forgettable and
> > > mediocre; that's a silly idea that I don't believe anyone here would
> > > subscribe to. The question was about an original alternative process
> > > print vs a digital reproduction of that same print, the relative value
> > > of. Not the relative value of a handmade print of a poor image vs an
> > > inkjet print of a great image, or any other inapt comparison. To
suggest
> > > that folks who prefer the handmade print to the digital reproduction
> > > are trying to hold back the hurricane of progress, is to miss the
point
> > > altogether.
> > >
> > > kt
> >
> >
>
>
>
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