Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina Manley offered in response to Geoff: Subject: RE: IMG: RE: [Leica] Framelines At 05:53 PM 11/2/2008, you wrote: >It's way cool to be able to read Tina's post, shoot a couple of frames, get them into my PC, upload one and now you've seen it about 20 mins after I shot it. Incidentally this is the new Adobe Standard profile. And how good is that old lens!! >Geoff <<<<<< Tina replied: >>Looks great to me, Geoff! Very sharp. Isn't digital fun!<< Tina you bet it's fun and it gives so many opportunities more than film at basically "no cost" I can't see myself using film ever again. No different than going back to the horse and buggy. Sure buying the gear is the major outlay, but once you have it in hand, man you go around snapping away like a kid stealing candy in a candy shop! :-) I'm finally having a small bit of Sunday quiet time sitting at the computer down loading happy snaps from the Leica Seminar in Rockport. I only shot with the M8 and no filters during the walk about in local harbours but I'm absolutely amazed at the sharp finger cutting images it captured. The printer is humming away in the back ground grinding out 12X18 prints that are quite amazing for quality. I don't know what I did, but it appears these are some of the sharpest looking M digital images I've ever seen. Maybe my eye sight is really failing more and I'm imagining this quality. As far as digital goes I wouldn't be caught dead using film ever again! But what I can't fathom are those photographers still saying the digital image isn't anything as good as film. I don't know what criteria they're using or what they're shooting, but anything I've had out of the M8 is amazing at 12X18 size photographs. And that includes in some cases a fair amount of cropping and they still look smashing! But to each his own! :-) ted