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Re: [OM] analog and digital

Subject: Re: [OM] analog and digital
From: "Lee Penzias" <l_penzias@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 14:18:07 -0500
This is evident among many people I come across who are appreciative of a "shortlist" of certain areas of interest (some more, some less). My tastes tend to run toward what some might call the "high end classics" in, type, character .. and cost(!). Yet I consider many things disposable - the sort that have a short to medium useful life, easily replaced, and trashed when necessary - and I refuse to spend more than a certain amount of money on them.

Be careful when invited to sample the King's table. After eating the King's food, nothing else might ever taste the same ;)

Cheers,
Lee

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From: Albert <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [OM] analog and digital
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 01:19:22 -0700

Photographers seem to be stereophiles as well. I don't know why, perhaps because they enjoy the finer things in life.

I've had my wallet seriously destroyed by stereo equipment. Being a violin player, I'm cursed!! My sister, tone deaf... Her $49 Aiwa system, she thinks it's the best there is. Can't differentiate that vs. something like even midgrade stuff like Klipsh, let alone stuff like Vandersteens. Why wasn't I so blessed??? She spends $100 on her stereo equipment, happy as a clam. Me, I'm cursed...

Photography, same thing! Her P&S, shoots POS, but she thinks it's great, so she's happy about that. Of course, you all are on the list, so you are all cursed as well...

For me, the "chip vs. tube" debate is older then the Canon vs. Nikon debate...

Albert

William Sommerwerck wrote:

I was talking to my friend, the one that got me into photography in the
first place, he's an aerospace engineer. We talked about the irony of
the digital age.





"The ultimate goal of digital, is to replicate analog." Isn't that ironic?
CD's goals are to sound like an analog signal, and digital picture's
goals are to look like an analog picture. So if I have analog already,
why do I want digital?




Your friend is wrong. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

I reviewed hi-fi equipment for over a decade. One of the stupidest remarks I
ever heard (and continue to hear) was the statement that good digital
devices "sound [more] like analog." As far as sound reproduction is
concerned, an amplifier or recorder isn't supposed to "sound like"
anything -- it's supposed to sound like nothing at all. That is, it should
have no identifiable character of its own. The proper reference is not
analog or digital, but live sound.

Photography is different, because the exact reproduction of what's in front
of the camera has never been an important goal. Digital photography is,
shall we say, more "literal," without the subjective "distancing" of
silver-based photography. Digital is more mundanely "real" and less
"artistic."

In any case, digital photography * has many obvious advantages over "analog"
photography, such as immediate availability and reduced material costs.

* There's some confusion because what we really mean is "electronic
photography." Sony's original Mavica was analog, not digital.


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