Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 9/30/02 Austin Franklin wrote: > >> i hate the process between >> pushing the shutter and seeing the result. and i hate the darkroom. and i >> hate developing film. and i hate spending money to have someone >> else develop >> it. > >Well, for $17, for 72 prints that make the in-laws happy, it's cheap. > >We are talking about two different uses. I am comparing, what I consider, >comparable use...of course, when I shoot something for "art", it's developed >by me, and printed by me...and I print very few...but the ones I print are >spectacular, and they have a different audience. > I think Kyle was addressing the typical uses of the LUG. I think most of the conversation here is about more serious work and not snapshots. However, digital has completely changed the way I shoot snapshots. I take tons of pictures, my wife takes tons of pictures, we pull 'em into the Mac either with iPhoto or ImageCapture and toss out what we don't want - which is most of 'em. I typically back up the images to CD before deleting unless there are a ton of 'em I don't like. Then print the few images I want. I can write files from Photoshop to CD and take them to PhotoSource in Sacramento and have them wet printed. I've liked that result. This is all faster than shooting, taking in the film to be processed, printing a bunch of 4 x 5's I don't want, and then taking the pictures back to be printed larger. It's completely liberating to work this way because it's so cheap. My wife loves it and has improved her photography greatly because she can see better. This is with a D30. I don't like this camera very much, as I've said here before. But it holds 700 images (jpeg) and does good job. Digital doesn't have the latitude that film does. Exposures have to be done with greater care. Maybe new sensor technology does a better job. But it's like the difference between shooting HDTV and film - it's just so much harder to shoot digital than film - but it's a lot cheaper too. So I guess I'm saying that digital has a different work-flow because the costs are different. With a FireWire connection to the camera the process from capture to sort is much faster than for film. I'd still like to have the R8 ergonomics/design with digital and FireWire instead of film. Adam Bridge - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html