Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well thanks for the kind words..but..I am a supremely 'insecure' photographer; I always worry that I somehow blew the shoot until I see the results. I'm not sure where that comes from, but... Anyway...At this point I am using digital for any sort of really straight-forward bread-and-butter stuff - for instance an afternoon of grip-n-grins in D.C. on Sunday. Why bother with film when you can shoot, dump the images from your card to your computer, pick the images, size them, do any 'darkroom' work, and Email them to the client or burn them to a CD. Under those circumstances, film makes less than no sense. In terms of more 'serious' work, I think that at this point the digital will replace my F100s - which is to say I'll use it for work with longer lenses, flash work, and most outdoor work. Film - and the Ms - is/are still the choice for low light work and wide angle lenses... There's no question that film still provides better shadow detail, and that at higher ISOs, still carries the day. But in the long run? When there are fast primes and wide primes available for the digital I'm using? I don't know. Like the rest of the 'oldsters' on the list I grew up on film - and I grew up on the Leica myth. As I've written a number of times, my first 'real' camera was a IIIc with a Canon 50 1.8. Numerous times over the years I've drifted away from the Leica rangefinders, and each time I've eventually come back - kicking myself hard for having sold the previous batch of equipment. So for now I'm still hanging on to my 'real cameras.' I suppose that one of the things protecting my Ms is the knowledge that every time I've unloaded a kit, I've regreted it. But I don't know how much longer I'll feel that way. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Bill Harting Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:59 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW Glad you didn't wait to confess... but your caption told the story all along. What i think i recognize, after looking at all your energetic digital images, is how much fun you are having with the digital. It's obvious. And although digital has little attraction for me at this moment, I wonder if or why you would ever go back to film now that you have learned the ins and outs of making such excellent digital images with what is apparently such a competent piece of equipment. You say (below) that with digital you don't have to wait to get the film back to see how things turned out, but your body of film work indicates that you have more than a little reason to expect that you'll get good results using film. So fess up: are you tilting to digital (or have you tilted already)? And what place will film play for you in the future? bill - ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:47 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] PAW > Okay...I was going to wait till tomorrow to come clean...but I've > decided that that's too nasty... The images were shot in digital with > the E-1, and converted to BW using something called PowerRetouch..lens > was the E-1s 50 f2 macro, which is the equivalent of a 100 f2 in 35 > mm...No reaction from Grand Dad to the 'monster' SLR...the > granddaughter eventually spoted me, as you can see. What was nice was > knowing before I left the Pete's that I had a good image, so I asked > the grandfather if he has Email, handed him my card and told him to > Email me and I'd be happy to send him a couple images. I could have > also done that with film, but wouldn't know what I really did or > didn't have until I got the film back. > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve > Barbour > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:41 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW > > > nice work BD...sort of reminds us why we are all members of a Leica > group in the first place...Steve > > > > BD sed.... > > Ah, give me the M, a 90 APO Summicron, and some Tri-X.... > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/image-56063.html > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/image-56062.html > > > > Comments, brickbats, or bottled kitties welcome as usual... > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html