Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/27

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Subject: [Leica] film vs. digital in my brain.
From: amr3 at alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Wed Sep 27 17:05:20 2006

>Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:47:19 -0400
>From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] film vs. digital in my brain.
>
>Philip -  You just need a professional digital camera instead of a
>point and shoot. ;-)  The 1DsMII solves all of those problems.  For a
>bargain price the 5D solves them, too.
>
>Tina
................................................................................

Philip Forrest wrote :

>I'm "soul searching" for a reason of why I want to take a photograph with
>a >film camera and not a digital."

I have this feeling, too. Digital just doesn't seem as real as film. I like
getting a transparency or a negative, even if I might never get around to
making a print.  Both still can be viewed without any equipment. Maybe I
just don't like the idea of the subject being turned into (admittedly
microscopic) square bits.

 I use a 1D or 1D MkII at work,(and I appreciate what they do for my
professional output) but these and even the 5D are too big for me to want
to carry around always for my personal photography. Not to mention what it
would cost to get the bulky lenses too.


Alan
Saving money on equipment by being happy with my M3 et al.



Alan Magayne-Roshak
Senior Photographer
Photo Services
Univ. of Wis.- Milwaukee
Information & Media Technologies
amr3@uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/





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