Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yep the slide megaphone is great. Its very hands off. Al L you have to do is sort them and show them. The PS cure all is kind of beside the point photo ship is your darkroom your not thing to cure the pictures your trying to develop and print it. People call it a cure are are the ones who don't want to do it. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Dennis Kushner <dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 22:59:36 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W on a digital camera > > I equate digital to slide film. The better the "neg" the less post > processing > needed. I find using filters when needed saves time later on. Don't fit > the "PS cure-all" way of thinking. What is harder for me is switching > between Oly E-330 & Pentax K10D. Oly menu way easier to navigate > but K10D has focus confirmation for all my manual lenses & with upgraded > screen, still hit or miss with fast lenses wide open. Oly has monochrome > setting > which I prefer over Pentax software converting color. My next learning > curve > will be setting color profiles etc. to printer. But that's for the future. > > DK > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:43 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> > wrote: > >> >> On Jul 6, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> Digital does not feel less "hands on" to me it feels more. >>> When someone says "nice Photo Mark" I do feel it its my photo they are >>> complimenting. Not my having gone "click". then the guy in the Walgreens >>> feeding the C41 machine, Robin Williams in that movie, really doing the >>> picture. >> >> Curious - how did you feel about shooting transparencies Mark? >> >> It was always a very different trip for me; >> when photographing transparencies or 4x5 or 8x10 Polaroids; >> wherein "all the work" had to be done "PRECISELY" >> before tripping the shutter. >> >> No darkroom adjustments. >> No discussions with the guys at the custom C-41 lab. >> Had to "get it" on the film. >> Emulsion tests, lights, filters, color temperature meters - those were the >> days! >> Far fewer fish swam in that pond. >> >> ;~) >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information