[Leica] Re: how to make conventional photography unconventional

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

If it's a bad deal for you, don't go for it.

You would not however, be adding time to your "work flow" - you would no
longer be processing film cutting negs, making contacts, going over
contacts, and making prints. Instead you'd down load images, review them
as positives, rather than as negatives, and making prints. The time it
would take to make a print of equal or superior quality to those you
produce in the wet darkroom would be greatly reduced. AND, and I find it
interesting that no one has mentioned this lately, any time in the
future that you decide you want another print identical to the one you
make now, all you have to do is push a button, rather than go through
the whole damn process all over again.

But, as I said, if you like things as they are, don't change a thing.
:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Summicron1@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 9:47 AM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Re: how to make conventional photography unconventional


not sure what you want -- every digital camera I see for sale today
still 
says that it produces images "as good as film," or some variation of
that in the 
sales pitch, and all the photogs I know who use the latest digital
cameras say 
that the biggest problem they have is the extreme lack of latitude --
it's 
like shooting chrome films, they say, and yearn for the days of color
neg film 
with its 7-stop latitude

-- so are you suggesting they find a way to make film images worse? 

>From where I sit (making display 11 by 14 images in a wet darkroom, 
>b/w) I
could, by spendign enough money, possibly duplicate what I already can
do in 
digital and get more speed or ease or something, although I'd also be
adding a 
lot of computer time, but the cost would be enormous and the quality
gain nil. 
The way I was raised, that's a bad deal.

ctrentelman
In a message dated 3/6/05 2:36:37 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org
writes:


> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > Here's is a question I've been trying to answer for the last two 
> > years:
> What
> > realistic improvements in film technology would you recommed to a 
> > major
> film
> > manufacturer to make conventional photography unconventional enough 
> > to
> compete
> > with quality digital technology for the long term?
> >
> > Best,
> > Bob R
> 
> 

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