Re: [Leica] Paying Job - First Entirely with Digilux 1

["Jeffcoat Photography" <wilber@jeffcoatphotography.com>]

George- Would you post a link that I might look at these digital images that
all are talking about. We are shooting little of this and I would like to
see what your doing.
Cheers Wilber
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From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist@concentric.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 2:19 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Paying Job - First Entirely with Digilux 1


> bdcolen2/7/03
>
> >this digital crap - it just eats up
> >too much time! ;-)
>
> While I appreciate the sarcasm and the winking smile, I must add my regret
that the effort in
> shooting did not yield files (or film) that would allow me to make some
beautiful 11x14 or 16x20
> prints. And so I lust after the 6-20 thousand dollar digital cameras (as
well as the 15 thousand
> dollar scanners) which would poduce files worthy of the 3 hours of
shooting. And those files would
> not take just 10 minutes to upload, open, finesse, and store. While
perfect for the web, these
> little digital, expensive toys, do not as yet give us professional files
to professionally print
> with.
>
> And so, "Come on Leica - give me a professional body that will allow me to
use my investment in
> glass and produce some professional files. NOW!"
>
> Also, inkjet printing is not fast. I can get a lot more  prints out of an
hour in my darkroom than
> an hour with the computer/epson. However, I also have to say that I do
love the image controls of
> digital printing.
>
> So it all comes down to our living in a time when, I suspect, most of us
have one foot in the
> pasture and one in the yard, with our groins hanging painfully on the
barbed wire fence; trying to
> figure out which way to do "this particular job." At least that describes
my dilemas.
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