My history is similar, too. Started with Photo CD's 2000 dpi, learned about color correction, color profiles, photoshop tricks, etc. Learned from Photoforum, leben lists, elswhere on the net, and elswhere in the real world. Then bought a printer, and when I thought the digital cameras came to an accepteble level, I bought my first digital camera, 3mp Canon G1. Saw that digital was very very infant, but I also saw that digital photography enabled real work to be done in such a way that was impossible to do with film; quick commercial work where upmost quality was not needed. After waiting for a while, I bought my first dslr. I used lots of time and lots of grey matter. Veli Izzet > What makes you think people -- let's talk about me, since I'm > the only one whose history I know in any detail -- embraced > digital quickly and without much examination? > > In my case, I started experimenting with having film images > put onto Photo CD somewhere back in 1994 or 95. I displayed > some of my images on the web, and started learning slowly > about digital editing. Then I got a color printer, and > discovered it did much better on photos than I expected. > Then I got a film scanner and a better printer, and then a > bigger printer. In 2000, after 5 or so years of working > "semi-digitally", I got my first digital camera. After > nearly three years of working with that, I got my current > digital camera. During this period, I've been in > communication with people on Photoforum, the Usenet > photography newsgroups, the old Leben list for inkjet > printers, photo.net, and probably other places I'm > forgetting, reading about the experience of thousands of > people trying to use their equipment to make the images they want. > > That does not, to me, look anything like what I'd mean by > either "quickly" or "without much examination".
