Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/19

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Subject: [Leica] Digital vs. film cost
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:15:10 -0400

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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> Henning Wulff
> henningw at archiphoto.com
> 
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