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To: Michael Kim who wrote (18748)	1/28/2001 5:42:38 AM
From: Steve Lee	Respond to of 60323

To expand on your points of special effects - the film version requires the skilled photograper to be at the scene, and also a skilled person to be involved in the development process. With digital, any Joe can go and capture the raw data and, if they choose, have it processed by a professional artist at a later date. And what's more, it isn't gonna get screwed up if the graphic artist makes a mistake, a much better result than a dark room cock up.

To: Michael Kim who wrote (18748)	1/28/2001 2:48:27 PM
From: Trader X	Respond to of 60323

Kim, I have used Photoshop regularly for the past 12 years as a tool of my business, but it still doesn't replace what an SLR can do in the hands of someone who knows photography. While after effects can be applied, they don't look real, or as real, as an effect done in-camera. I don't see how you can say that an SLR offers less creative control. If you mean that instant special effects can be applied digitally instead of through a knowledge of the medium, I suppose it is similar to knowing computer programming, and just using it. While digital creates ease and convenience, it also distances the user from the art. what if everyone could pick up a digital paint brush and "create" a Mona Lisa? Are the instant art effects as valuable as ones that required knowledge and skill? Of course not. The entire medium becomes cheapened to a commodity-like status. Digital photgraphy could actually be the death of photography as an art form, just as photography killed painting in the last century.