RE: [Leica] scanning dark scala question(flatbed)

["Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>]

Well Nathan,
Yours would be one of about twenty people in the world that I would
enjoy your slide show.  If I ever make it to Amsterdam....

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

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Wajsman
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Subject: Re: [Leica] scanning dark scala question(flatbed)

Don Dory wrote:
> 
> I think a better question to ask is why am I shooting Scala?  In the
> days of slide shows and AD's with light boxes then a B&W slide film
made
> sense as you were dealing with a first generation image: using a B&W
> slide film to make prints seems counter-intuitive to me.  I know that
> both you and Nathan do/did not have a darkroom so it was a method of
> getting where you wanted to go, but why not shoot B&W negative film?
> OK, Scala does have a very unique signature so artistic requirements
> come into play.

Good question, Don. As you write, I shot mostly Scala in the first few
months after moving to the Netherlands because I did not trust a lab to
do a good job on normal B&W. But during the fall I went back to standard
films, and the lab does an excellent job with them. I still shoot Scala
occasionally, for the following reasons:
- - it does have a unique signature, which I sometimes want
- - I find the "in-between" speed of 200 useful at times
- - I like the flexibility of having slides to project--yes, I do organize
slide shows for my family and friends from time to time
- - at the end of the day, sometimes I just feel like it!

Nathan

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