Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My first sort is into three boxes, keepers, throw-aways, and family content. It's fun coming back 5 years later to a slide (or snapshot) that has no merit other than you love the person pictured. Sam S John Collier wrote: > My problem is that most of stuff ends up projected (1.5m x 2m and > largely to scare BD away) and digital is just not there yet AFAIK. It > would be great to be able to do no-cost editing. Hell I would sell my > first born (cheap and you would know why if you have ever had a 17 yr > old daughter) to be able to do so. Later today I am picking up 34 rolls > of slides (1224 images) and will probably only end up projecting a > couple of hundred or so (if I am lucky but most of it is family stuff > and I am not allowed to throw away as much as I would like -- again to > scare BD away). > > I also do not develop my personal work right away. I like to wait > anywhere from a few months to a year so that I am emotionally detached > from the images. I find it is easier to edit this way as you are seeing > the image fresh and your memories do not colour your judgment. Weird I > will admit but it works for me. I would need a great many large memory > cards to do this if I went digital. Handy maybe; cheaper, I am not so > sure... > > John Collier > > On Feb 27, 2004, at 9:37 AM, sam wrote: > >> Ha ha, I see your problem. You shoot color negative. If you shot >> slides you could blow the darn thing up to the size of the wall. >> Seriously, I have stopped using color neg. materials. I shoot mostly >> b&w and slides. Slides are perfect if you need an enlared negative >> which I often do. >> >> LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote: >> >>> You guys who print everything are clearly much better photographers >>> than me. I estimate that only one in ten of my pictures are worth >>> enlarging to greater than 4x6". I'm also one of those guys that is >>> incapable of assessing ultimate picture quality from a postage stamp >>> sized negative in reversed colors so I printed up far more pictures >>> than I wanted to keep. My wastebasket was overflowing. >>> Digital has been a godsend. I can view scads of pictures on a 20" >>> monitor and print only those that are decent. At current prices for >>> quality inkjet inks and photo quality paper, my wallet thanks me. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html