Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With a lightbox who needs a contact sheet? The 4x6 "proofs" may be just as crap re exposure as the contact sheet...and it's also a pretty expensive, paper-intensive, way to go. Light box. Loupe. Grease pencil. Paper punch. Go. :-) B. D. MEBerube wrote: > > Contact sheets for 35mm film are highly over rated. each exposure is too > small to be useful and if there is any appreciable swing in exposures at > all, only half the images are properly printed enough to be useful on any > one sheet anyhow. > > Give me 38 frames on 4X6 "proofs" from each roll any day. > > Even better, my local lab is also now scanning each roll I do for money > onto CD in big .tif files for a really low fee. > > With the Browse feature in PhotoShop/PaintShopPro and a good neg numbering > system, who needs a contact sheet? > > Carpe Luminem, > Michael