Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Apart from the pros who use digital because that makes economic sense, using film still demands in me the discipline of "one shot one kill". I remember when I was on vacation, I budgeted myself one roll of 36 shots per diem, plus another two rolls spare. All the exposed rolls were souped and printed and I had quite a lot of hard copies to make a travelogue. I now have in excess of fifteen travelogues which have become priceless memories. It was easy to go through 8x36 images and chuck out the poor ones and ones that did not fit the travelogue would go into a shoe box. Today, I shoot, soup and scan B&W film into digital. Because it's still film, the discipline of "one shot one kill" prevails. I make digital contact prints, and enlarge the keepers. My negatives are my archived images. Silver halide negs last a long time in good hands. They can still go into my enlarger (don't know when) to make those amazing silver halide fiber based prints. For colour, I am afraid that has turned the corner and I am sometimes mindlessly machine gunning subjects with my digital camera and culling becomes a full time job. Most times, I overshoot and start falling asleep in front of the monitor after viewing 200 images. So many images now after a vacation...groan! Dan K.