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How much image processing is too much?

Best of Pentax Forums Newsletter June 11, 2026

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How much image processing is too much?

It took Ansel Adams a decade of processing and printing to turn his one frame of film into the Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico into the seminal image we all know. Adams wrote and taught that photography was like classical music: the negative — these days, the RAW file — is the score, and the print is the performance.

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