Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric I certainly can't disagree with your reasons for going digital but just for the heck of it don't get that M8 yet. Get a Nikon Coolscan for $600 and let Walgreens process your film (no prints, process only) for $2.15 a roll. After that, you can decide on color or b&w while sitting in front of your PC. An Epson 1280 for $300 will turn out a fine 11x14 and if you get after market inks the print is archival. (whatever that is supposed to mean) This will let you save $4000 so get a $400 Canon from Target and put away the rest for a nice trip to Vegas. :-) Walt Eric wrote: >Walt: > > > >>What if the >>Nikkormat with a 50mm f2.0 provided a better finished product than your >>M8? Think there is a chance of that happening? >> >> > >I don't have an M8. But if somebody wants to give me one, I'd be happy to >test it against all the older cameras I could get my hands on. :) > >If an older, film camera produces a better finished result than an M8, I >would suggest buying that older film camera and not having to worry about IR >filters. > >Right now, at this point in my life, the better finished result for me will >come from a digital camera. I don't have a local, reliable lab. I don't >have time to do my own processing. I don't have the equipment or the desire >to do color processing. So for me, at this point in time, digital is my >best solution. > >That said, if I could see night and day difference in finished prints of my >normal subjects between my current equipment and other digital equipment, I >would probably start figuring out what I'd need to do to switch over. At >this point, I think that competent photographers can make fantastic prints >using the brand of their choosing. I suspect that we'd have a hard time >telling the Canons from the Nikons from the Olympus from the Pentax from the >Minolta from the Leica judging only by prints. I believe you'd see more of >a difference based on how the print is made, and not what captured the >original image. > > > >-- >Eric >http://canid.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >