Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:36 PM 3/17/2003 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: >Not OK. As far as myself and my clients are concerned my M6 IS a digital >camera as is my Hasselblad CM both shooting color neg film. This is >common where i bring in my film here in Portland to a Pro place they >make large scans from every single shot on the roll. All for 17 dollars. >A two day turnover. They call them raw scans but that in effect means >untouched my human hands it's a big expensive machine that seems to >work. Occasionally I'll run into some dust with requires some cloning. >Less dust than my scans though. When i finally get a digital camera or >back I'll enjoy not one piece of dust. Big deal. Oh and instant >turnaround. Almost not a big deal. >There is always scanning at various turn arounds and quality level of >your rolls of film or individual frames. >I think only recently has the majority of digital photogaphy been done >by digial camreas. Before it was negs being scaneed. >... Actually, the major reason I don't "care for" digital system right now (we do have a digicam) is precisely that. I shoot Provia 100F majority of the time. With the exception over the weekend, local Keeble & Shuchat sends the slides out everynight and I get them back the next day. Then I stick the whole roll into the Nikon 4000 roll film adapter and 1 1/2 hours later, I get them all scanned. Dust is not a problem since I turn on ICE and the scan input device has a brush builtin. To me, this is almost the best of many worlds. I still have the original slides and have them in digital format to play with and print, w/o having a wet darkroom (I know the lure of a darkroom, I might yet build one, but it is oh so convenient to scan and print digitally...) The other major reason is ergonomics - I have small hands and I can't stand huge cameras. How small? Well, I have no problem at all extracting the film canister from the M7. I think Bob Shell's review said something like he is ready to buy the M7 except that he can't get the canister out easily. Certainly not a problem for me. // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> <http://www.dragonsgate.net/mailman/listinfo> On-line orders, support, and listservers available on web site. [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ] - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html