Hi folks
Wayne and Tris wrote
>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:59:49 +1100
> Tris Schuler <tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If you _want_ a rant I could jam this list for a week (easily) with
> my
> feelings with regard to same. But I don't think you want a rant so I
> won't. <g>
>Spare us the rant - we've had enough of those already (not just in this forum
!).
>Fact is, you *can* still get oils, watercolours, pencils, charcoal, crayon even
>though photography has been around for 100+ years. Why would you want
>to use oils when we have Velvia ?
>Wayne Harridge
I'll give you one reason that oils stay around (water-colours too) and and in
use even though we have fine films - and it's a good reason.
For some reason(s) that I haven't totally been able to put my finger on, when
people want an image to hang on the wall of their home, given a choice it will
be 95+0il painting and < 50hotograph. Try and get a selling gallery to
display your best photos, if you don't believe me.
>From the digital prints that I've seen people here produce from their colour
printers (YuKK and then YUKK some more), digital won't improve matters. At
the moment the advent of digital has seen printed image quality crash - big-
time. Unbelievably poor quality. Same with daily papers. Real estate agents
do better here with the digital prints in their brochures - they went 100%
digital about 5 - 8 years ago.
Brian
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