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以下是 Jonathan 提到的 Large format photography forum 中讨论中国摄影者的节选，俺也翻译成中文给大家看看。这一段是由一名叫 Hugo 的网人写的，挺有意思，可以看出美国人惯有的一些自大，可他对中国某些方面的了解也不错，象关于中国水墨画的想法，或许对我们会有些启发。:o)

It's amazing how fast they learn. They try PMK and discuss Michael's AZO printing. Right now, they are trying to do things Ansel Adams' way like most of us, I wouldn't be surprised to see some of them develop their own Chinese styles in future. Something following their long tradition of ink paintings. Less rather than more, soft rather than sharp, dreamy rather than realistic.

他们（中国人）学习摄影的速度是令人惊讶的快。他们在尝试 PMK 显影术；他们在讨论 Michael 的 AZO 印像术；他们也在象我们当中的大多数那样，追随 Ansel Adams 的摄影之路。反正如果有一天他们创立了自己的中国式摄影艺术的话，我是一点也不吃惊的 -- 比如和他们传统的水墨画结合起来，用简洁，朦胧，梦幻来取代复杂，清晰和现实。

China is an exciting place for LF photographers. Many mountains and rivers have not been recorded by 8x10 negatives before. You have the most modern cities along the coast and mountain villages still sleepy in history.

对大幅（胶片）摄影，中国尤其是一个令人振奋的地方。那里太多的山河还没有被8x10的底片拍摄过。在沿海，那里有当今最现代化的城市；在山区，也有仍然沉睡在历史中的村庄。

Exchange of images and discussion on forum will be difficult. Some of them can read English and most of us here don't read Chinese. But if you post on their forum, you will probably get some answers. One interesting area is workshop. Most of them are beginners who are eager to learn and usually willing to pay for good learning experience. LF is still a hand-on thing, not very effective to learn from internet. Most brave souls here with experience should entertain the idea of travelling and teaching there for a few months. It might be the photo trip of your life.

和他们交流图片和探讨将是困难的。一部分的中国人看得懂英文，可是大多数的我们对中文一窍不通。但是如果我们去他们论坛发帖子的话，说不定我们会得到一些回应。另外可以做的事情是讲座。大部分中国人是摄影的初学者，他们急于学习，愿意付钱去学习好的经验。大幅摄影仍然是要从操作中学习的；从网上学习不会很有效。如果我们当中既勇敢又富有经验的人去中国几个月，边旅游边教学的话，那将是我们生命中最有意义的摄影旅行吧。

Just my 2 cents.

--Hugo 2006-04-03 20:05 PDT

仅仅是我的一孔之见。

-- 雨果 2006年4月3日


下面是另一小段，嘿嘿：

what film do they use? recently there have been a few words about the shrinking lf market and disappearing film over here, but the growing market in china should also provide new opportunities to sell film. maybe there are already lf film manufacturers in china we don't even know of.

他们在用什么胶片？现在我们开始担心胶片市场不断萎缩，胶片也许会在我们这里消失。但是中国那边不断壮大的摄影大军应该能够拯救胶片市场！说不定中国已经有他们自己的胶片了，而我们一点都不知道？

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