Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just stick with analog if you have the darkroom skills. Digital brings blown highlights that you can't "burn in" in the darkroom, or conversely wierd noise in the shadows that can be hard to address. Just do what comes naturally. Film and paper and chemistry is still widely available for the time being. Enjoy it. Scott Marc James Small wrote: >At 08:31 PM 2/6/06 -0500, Tina Manley wrote: > > > >>That's depressing, Marc! I know you can do it. Take your basic >>point and shoot and go out and play. It doesn't cost anything. You >>can delete the mistakes. When you have some photos that look nice on >>the LCD screen, take your memory card to Walgreens and have them make >>some prints. It's cheap and easy. When you decide you want to do >>more with the photos, get a basic Photoshop how-to book and flip >>through it. You don't need to sit down and read it all, just use it >>as a reference book and look something up when you have a >>question. Pretty soon you'll find that you are getting better >>results than you ever could in the darkroom. Photography will be fun >>again. Then you will be frustrated with the limitations of your point >>and shoot and you'll want a professional digital SLR. T >> >> > >Thanks, Tina, for your most warm and helpful thoughts. However, I have >done this and have found only dismal results with digital and results that >I can easily pound the daylights out of in chemistry. And I OWN the >darkroom stuff and have the wherewithall to do chemistry without having to >spend $600 foir the latest CS-2 which seems to be confounding everyone else >on this List. > >Incidentally, I am receiving a bunch of off-List traffic from folks who >seem to feel that this is no longer a Leica Users' Group but rather an >anti-Leica digital users' group. Go figure. > >Again, let's get back to discussing the alternate facility for the use of >the 50mm enlarging lens on the V35. > >Marc > >msmall@aya.yale.edu >Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > >NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)