Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had heard there was some use of color neg for such commercial work but most photographers seemed to have looked at their chrome films as a religion. They thought of color neg as wedding photographer food. Mark William Rabiner > From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw at archiphoto.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:57:24 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital vs. film cost > > And sometimes I had to do a ring around with filtration for indoor > architectural work with mixed lighting, which multiplied that times 9. > That's > why I also shot colour neg as soon as it started to do a good job. Fine > tuning > of colour and exposure could be done in the lab; shooting time decreased to > 1/2 or 1/3 and material costs dropped to 5-10%. > > > > On 2011-07-18, at 4:15 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > >> >> On Jul 18, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> Not only is it not pennies but dollars a frame but part of transparency >>> shooting is bracketing. Which means your covering yourself whenever you >>> can >>> with lots of exposures of any semi critical subject out in the field >>> shooting city or land scapes if its worth getting its worth getting right >>> and you learn a lot about your materials in the processs. Also the best >>> "dupe" is the one make at the time in camera. So you are in effect >>> backing >>> yourself up holding your figure down. >> >> There IT is. >> >> Words from a fellow brother >> who has most certainly shot transparencies >> for commercial use by >> advertising agencies, magazines and corporate clients. >> >> Each set-up required a minimum of 3 brackets X 2. >> That's 6 sheets of 8x10 or 4x5 or half a role of 120 (6x6). >> >> >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > Henning Wulff > henningw at archiphoto.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information