Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric That's the biggest reason I shot b&w and do my own film. I've had pro labs, newspaper labs and drug stores chew up film. Years back I went to Europe and shot a hell of a lot of Kodachrome. Kodak was still doing it then and they screwed up 6 rolls for me. I got replacement film and a letter telling me this hardly ever happens. I wrote them and said my trip to Paris hardly ever happened either. Maybe digital is the answer....Do a little after the shoot chimping and hurry home to burn a CD. I still think the M8 is flawed but maybe a mid range Canon? ;-) Walt Eric wrote: >Walt: > > > >>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. :-) >> >> > >The day my local photo store "ate" a roll of film was the day I realized >that if the pictures were important, I wasn't handing film over to a >minimum-wage processor. First pictures of my first child being held by my >mom...soon after her kidney transplant, which enabled her to live long >enough to see her grandchild. Nothing a film credit can't replace. :) > >Since then, I've moved to a smaller town. (3 million to 150k.) There just >isn't a local, reliable photofinisher here. I tried. Heck, we can't even >bring down a building using dynamte: >http://canid.com/zip_feed_mill/zip_feed_mill_23302.html :) > >I even tried sending my color film off to a pro shop in another town. That >worked for a while. After they used my film to clean the rollers on their >chairs, I tried another place. Until they dragged it through >the-deity-of-your-choice-knows-what. The last color film I shot was the one >I spent about 2 hours per finished print meticulously cloning out scratches >and spotting out dust. That's when I realized I had to go to digital >capture to preserve what little sanity I had left. > >Just to bring this around to the topic, the higher speed ISO on my Canon 5D >is so smooth, I don't even hesitate to shoot at 640. That's a "normal" ISO >for me. Looks as good as what I used to get with ISO 100 film: > >http://canid.com/current/061209_003.html > >Caution: don't click on thumbnails unless you want to see tons of family >pics. These are pretty much straight out of the camera without edits, yet. >I put pics here for the family, and then later, I'll go back and edit/touch >up the keepers in photoshop. These are with a 300/4 + 1.4x. I wanted to >play with my new toys. :) > >Realistically, I know I'm not going to buy an M8. (Unless I come into a lot >of unexpected found money. As in winning the lottery. Except I never play. >:) I really hope this succeeds for Leica, though, because I think I'll be >ready to buy an M10 or M11. If it's possible to love an inanimate object, I >love the M series. My SLRs are just tools. My M6 is a work of art. > > > > >-- >Eric >http://canid.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >