Re: New Puts article
He thinks, tests, writes, shares his view, and that's appreciable anyway, apart the personal evaluations on some specific issue. For me, for instance, this sentence in the quoted last article was someway of interest :
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In the imaging chain, the role of the lens is becoming less important and the role of the software is now the main engine for image recording and representation. "
Is a consideration that, maybe not so straightly expressed, had emerged many times in my mind.... even if my impression is that this is not intrinsic in the "nature" of digital photo... it has to do with the fact that almost everyone has the chance & the tools to use this "engine" .... with film one could say that the "main engine" is the film development process : looking at Puts' exaples of "extreme" PP, probably one could have got similar values with some kind of "extreme" formulas and conditions of film process: but the fact is that there are/were very FEW people that can master the chem processes, expecially at the point to get "extreme" results. Of course, with digital almost any possible tool can be easily used by everyone.
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