[Leica] IMG: Daydreaming in the Market

[jshulman at judgecrater.com (Jim Shulman)]

George and Tina,

At least we have negatives/slides for reference, and the opportunity to
reconsider pictures taken five, ten, fifty years ago.
Brian Reid noted that, for most of today's photographers, that won't
likely be a possibility:
http://leica-users.org/NYLUG-2011.pdf

Best,
Jim Shulman


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
George Lottermoser
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 12:52 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Daydreaming in the Market


On Aug 23, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> I give up!!
>
> Tina

no no no - Tina - do not give up.

Your primary purpose (as I understand it) is to catalog your VAST and
IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION of a lifetime of photography.
and
You're accomplishing this monumental task while building a house canning
vegetables marrying off your kids traveling the world and god knows what
else.

KUDOS! to you.

You are a photographer.
You are not a professional film scanner.
As I understand it you're bulk scanning thousands of images.

At some point you owe it to yourself
to have top quality drum scans made of a couple of your best images; just
to compare results with your process.

I did give up on scanning my film files.
I could not "consistently" achieve the quality that I achieved in the
darkroom; or the quality that drum scans achieved.
I could not afford the high end scanners; or the time that high quality
scanning film demands.

If I ever do get back to my film files
I'll use a digital camera to catalog the film frames; rather than a
scanner.
If anyone requires maximum quality - they'll have to pay for a drum scan.

YMMV

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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