Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/17

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: film stuff from the holidays
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:13:11 -0500

> i really much prefer the convenience and speed of digital, but scanning old
> negs the past few weeks, i find film has one big advantage:
> 
> I stand a lot better chance of pulling out a small portion of an image with
> film than with digital. I guess it's the random size and shape of grain 
> that
> is less offensive than the regular little boxes of digital.
> 
> Of course, that may be related to my upbringing with film.
> 
> ric
> 


I don't know I crop like sun of a gun with digital. I'm not sure if film
scans at least done with my Nikon LS 4000 are better in that regard. I think
not as good. Maybe a drum scan would I don't know.

[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner





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