Re: Computers and colour IR Film (Replaced subject header)

[pico <pico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Niels Nielsen:
>Why should we use a computer, when we can do the same thing, or many times
a
>better thing, in a more intelligent way??? Why should we be enslaved by a
>tool on which you think you're the user, when in fact you are the one who
is
>being used? Why not to get rid of all the technocracy that surrounds us,
and
>be able to say "I didn't need a computer to do what I did!"????


Neil Koven:
>What a load of unprocessed fertilizer!!  Cameras, various focal length
>lenses, filters, burning and dodging a print, and yes, even computers, are
>all tools to allow us to provide an image--either for ourselves or for a
>client. [...]

Well, it seems we have a religious and social (economic) war here. Niels
Nielsen is expressing a philosophical view certainly pertinent to some
artists (not all), but certainly impertinent to commercial photographers.
Mr. Koven is represting the commercial photographer quite well.

I'd be very surprised (pleasantly) if Mr. Nielsen were a highly successful
commercial photographer competing in the same area as Koven. Is he? (Are
you, Niels?)

Photography has room for most camps, and such misunderstandings will arise,
and they are healthy. Personally, I sympathize with Niels Nielsen. I've been
in computing for just over twenty years, and photography for
thirty-something. I can say that most of the work done with computers is
done merely because computers are there. But the same goes for sophisticated
cameras. It's Technology for Technology's Sake that disturbs me. But hey,
what the heck, I'm only one person. Fortunately. :)
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