Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 10/5/04 11:25 AM, "Kenneth Frazier" <kennybod@mac.com> typed: >> XP-2, but don't get attached to it. > > Ditto, and FP-4+, and don't get attched to it, either! > > Ken Frazier > I think the best black and white film today for someone doing a lot of digital is color neg film. How much R&D are they going to put into a product with a one tenth of one percent market possibility? And with color neg having 99.9999 percent of the market. I let'em have it their way and use the films they like to make. Its not is if it cost more money And I have a hard time saying no to more options. Its like the difference between shooting raw mode and just tiffs or jpegs. I like to shoot it raw. This makes the printing process almost overlapping into the shooting process. It's the same when you print monochrome from a color neg. You filter as if from scratch during the printing process. Instead of swapping filters during the shooting process.. The information as the the difference between objects as far as color goes is stored. Not thrown away. I'm all for that. Shades of gray are hard to separate we need all the help we can get. You've got the option to use this info to not just make a monochrome print but a highly de saturated color print which could almost pass as monochrome at first glance but be slightly more satisfying in that regard, Instead of a sepia print you can leave the sky cool. That kind of stuff. And you can buy a roll in a plaid pantry at 3 AM. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/