Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >Me if someone told me they had two 13x19 prints of the same thing taken at >the same time. >One with film with a Leica M6. >Another with an Epson R1D1. >I'd travel for hours in my car to where ever it was to see it. > > >Mark Rabiner Mark - I have hundreds of photos that I made in Honduras and Guatemala this summer. About 1/3 are Leica M's and R's with film and about 2/3 are Canon 10D with Canon and Leica R lenses. I've printed quite a few of each at 13x19. I just sold two 13x19's, one from film and one digital, that will be hanging side by side. The buyer had no idea that one was digital and one film. In this particular case, I prefer the digital. A lot of the time I was exposing both under exactly the same conditions, but in the case of these two, the film exposure was made in very low light (I couldn't have used the Canon 10D at 100iso). The digital exposure was made outside with plenty of light at 100iso. Of the photos that were made under identical conditions, I have to look at the prints with a loupe or look at the file name to know whether the print is from digital or film. The film prints have grain at 100%, the digital prints don't. The digital prints don't have noise either because I never shot over 100iso. The scanned film is second generation. The digital files are first generation. Based on the prints I have made, I will be using digital anytime I can use 100 or 200 iso. For 400iso and over, I'll stick to film. Travel hours in your car and come and see me and I'll show you the prints ;-) but you may have wait until mid-January. I'll be traveling a lot until then. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.workbookstock.com http://www.newscom.com http://www.americanphotojournalist.com