Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Walt: >Get a Nikon Coolscan for $600 and let Walgreens process your film (no >prints, process only) for $2.15 a roll. After that, you can decide on >color or b&w while sitting in front of your PC. An Epson 1280 for $300 >will turn out a fine 11x14 and if you get after market inks the print is >archival. (whatever that is supposed to mean) This will let you save >$4000 so get a $400 Canon from Target and put away the rest for a nice >trip to Vegas. :-) The day my local photo store "ate" a roll of film was the day I realized that if the pictures were important, I wasn't handing film over to a minimum-wage processor. First pictures of my first child being held by my mom...soon after her kidney transplant, which enabled her to live long enough to see her grandchild. Nothing a film credit can't replace. :) Since then, I've moved to a smaller town. (3 million to 150k.) There just isn't a local, reliable photofinisher here. I tried. Heck, we can't even bring down a building using dynamte: http://canid.com/zip_feed_mill/zip_feed_mill_23302.html :) I even tried sending my color film off to a pro shop in another town. That worked for a while. After they used my film to clean the rollers on their chairs, I tried another place. Until they dragged it through the-deity-of-your-choice-knows-what. The last color film I shot was the one I spent about 2 hours per finished print meticulously cloning out scratches and spotting out dust. That's when I realized I had to go to digital capture to preserve what little sanity I had left. Just to bring this around to the topic, the higher speed ISO on my Canon 5D is so smooth, I don't even hesitate to shoot at 640. That's a "normal" ISO for me. Looks as good as what I used to get with ISO 100 film: http://canid.com/current/061209_003.html Caution: don't click on thumbnails unless you want to see tons of family pics. These are pretty much straight out of the camera without edits, yet. I put pics here for the family, and then later, I'll go back and edit/touch up the keepers in photoshop. These are with a 300/4 + 1.4x. I wanted to play with my new toys. :) Realistically, I know I'm not going to buy an M8. (Unless I come into a lot of unexpected found money. As in winning the lottery. Except I never play. :) I really hope this succeeds for Leica, though, because I think I'll be ready to buy an M10 or M11. If it's possible to love an inanimate object, I love the M series. My SLRs are just tools. My M6 is a work of art. -- Eric http://canid.com/