Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, film is cheap at under $5 a roll. It's the damned processing that's expensive. But, whatever. I think that what cheap film/processing would do, (at least for me), is not make me waste film, but experiment more. I'd still take time with the same shots I take my time with now, but I'm sure I'd take lots of shots that are marginal, "just to see how they turn out". And, in so doing, I'd probably have lots more that I'd throw away - but that's what happens when one experiments, isn't it? And, that can't be a bad thing... cheers, frank Phong wrote: > Hi rich, > > I would think serious photographers, even when using free > film, do take the extra step. If I gave you a free roll > of film, would you should shoot sloppily just because it's free ? > Does a serious writer write more sloppily just because paper > and ink is cheap ? Wouldn't there be fewer good books > if writers have to watch their paper and ink budget ? > > That said, I do appreciate though that while cheap film > makes for better photographs, it makes a whole lot more of > bad photographs, just because there are proportionately > more of those. Same with books. > > Anyway, my point is that the main benefit of digital > for me is not so much in the number of shots, but > the number of "shoot-edit-learn from mistake-shoot again" > cycles offered by the fast digital workflow. > > It's ironic that I should be such a digital apologist > at the moment, as I am trying to set up a workflow > to produce 11x14 and 13x19 B&W prints, probably with > Tri X. > > Let me put it this way. IF (big IF) I have a way > to produce high quality scans from film as fast > as I can with digital, at about the same quality and > cost, I will throw away my digital camera. > Not so much because film is higher quality than digital > which it still is in some situations, but because > I am at this point in time still better at producing > images to my liking with film than with digital. > But that's changing very fast. > > Cheers, > > - Phong > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html