Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel: >>When it comes to color images, I wouldn't touch film. So I'm not totally hung up on film. But when it comes to b/w ... digital doesn't do it for me.<< You're not alone. It's digital color and film BW for me, too. I cross over a little, though. I tried Ektar 100 in an M6 and I really like it. I'd shoot it more but the only lab that I still trust for processing is 70 miles away. That makes color film really inconvenient! Still film differs from digital enough that I will occasionally tolerate the inconvenience. I can't explain how it's different. It just is. Whether or not equipment really matters is a photographic paradox that I've struggled to understand for as long as I can remember. Since most of the time it's hard to tell from an image what equipment was used the answer is no. But for some reason it matters to me, so the answer is yet. Most people who see my BW prints can't tell Rolleiflex from M6 (even if they're uncropped :-) ). Nor do they care. Same with color film vs digital. Years ago I was taught that the final image is the only thing that matters. But that never quite settled in with me. Two of my photographs can look identical. Yet it matters to me how they were made. It probably shouldn't, but it does. DaveR