Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whilst I have no doubt about the quality that you are getting from professional film, digital can yield equally stunning results. I changed from film to digital last year for all my work, including a relatively large number of weddings, and if you shoot RAW and then use a good RAW program using colour and exposure correction etc. the results are staggeringly good. I now get far more control over my images than I ever did with film, and 'white on white' control (such as wedding dress etc.) is far superior, IMHO, than film. There, that should have set a few tongues lashing :>) ! Gerry Gerry Walden LRPS www.gwpics.com <http://www.gwpics.com> Tel: +44 (0)23 8046 3076 -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+gwpics=lycos.co.uk@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+gwpics=lycos.co.uk@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Feli Sent: 20 January 2005 07:39 To: Leica Users Group Cc: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] Film Just shot my friends wedding, as the official shooter. Several other guests shot digital D60, D10, Nikon D100. (it's the movie biz so everyone is a photographer...) I shot Fuji 160NPS and Kodak 400 Porta NC, which I have been scanning on my Nikon SCS 5000ED. I had totally forgotten just how good, professional color print stock looks. I hate to say it, but the neg scans look so much more lush than the digital stuff. The white gowns in particular (it was a bright sunny day here in Los Angeles). The film shots just have so much more dynamic range, it's not even funny. The Nikon scanner is putting out 3670x5625 scans, which are blazing sharp (current 2/50 Cron R and M). The big advantage that the digital shots have is the auto white balance and the Nikon D100 was better at it than the Canons. The Canon did really badly with tungsten lighting, very warm. The digital advantage really becomes obvious in mixed light... Secondly, thank Solms for the M7 and AE. Absolutely amazing. It's hard to believe that the whole metering system consists of a blotch of white paint and a meter cell. Feli ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information