Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now you can get a 36exp roll of film scanned at a 25mb file per frame and prints at the same time. Sure, it's not "instant" like digital, but it can be a next day service. That's even better than digital IMHO. I'm not a news or sports photographer, I'll stick with film. Chris New Orleans - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Olson" Subject: [Leica] Film vs Digital > > I find it interesting to see to see the doom sayers, professing the death of > film and a wet darkroom. Hey to all neysayers, Fuji, Kodak, Agfa continue to > speend big $$$ on film development. Kodak killed off their K-25 > professional, because of the improved quality of 50-100 and yes 200 ISO > chrome film. Fuji is constantly tweaking their negative and positive lines. > In the area of B&W look what Kodak did to TriX. Ilford isn't sleeping and > neither is Fuji or Agfa. > Granted in the US, digital is happening because of the hype of ease and > instant gratification. I saw a recent survey by PC Magazine (Ithink) that > said only 1 in 5 Americans uses the internet at home. Think about that stat > and the implication as it applies to digital. Digital and computers & the > net go hand in hand. Someone pointed out in an earlier digest that most of > the rest of the world, film is king. In the US we have a tendancy to feel > that the rest of the world is just like us. It ain't. Digital in Europe is > still very small segment. Got that from both English and French photo mags. > Digital is great for news and other media where you have time constrants, > deadlines to meet and competion to beat. > As for me, film has been great for the past 40 + years. If I want to enhance > a chrome, I scan it and enhance (never manipulate). The pleasure I obtain > from openning a box of chromes, 35mm or 120mm and viewing them on a > lightbox, is far more satisfying then digital offers me. > On a day off. Dave - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html