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

[al <nissar@xxxxxxx>]

if it wasnt for computers you wouldnt have your high tech lenses or films,
think about that one ..... 

al



At 01:16 PM 7/24/98 -0600, you wrote:
>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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