[Leica] The final gasp of MF film?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Though the output one sees in scans one makes or downrezes for an email to a
friend or the LUG gallery or any gallery or our website is not going to be
about the wonderful crispiness at the edge of each grain particle.
And those days if our print was on the wall few are going to go up to it
with a loupe and check that out though the glass gets in the way.
I'm a big fan of appreciating my images on a macro level but to everything
there is a season and a time to every purpose.
Most people are reading this on their smart phones. Its not going to matter
if I have it set for serif or sans serif.
-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/


> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:59:28 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
> 
> 
> On Feb 15, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> I wonder how much of this needs to be wistful speculative theoretical
>> conversation and not more normal LUG show and tell? Why are we not LOOKING
>> AT IT?
> 
> Personally I have no desire to scan my sheet film (at this time).
> For the most part I'm okay to have silver prints - as intended - from that
> sheet film - and that era.
> (though it does occasionally cross my mind to revisit some negatives
> digitally).
> 
> I spent two years fighting with scanning.
> If I can't see the grain of the film in the scan
> in the same way that I saw it from a fine apo enlarging lens
> then - what's the point - use the enlarger.
> 
> I did see "all the film had to offer" in my commercial work
> when sending the film to a drum scanner (paid for by the client).
> That experience spoils a person.
> 
> I came to the conclusion that:
> film is made to print by contact or with an enlarger
> (unless you can afford drum scans).
> And if I was going to work digitally
> that meant digital capture of the images.
> 
> I do see decent scans on this list on occasion.
> At those times, I spend a brief moment fantasizing about revisiting film.
> Then remember the amount of time it takes
> to never really "get" what the film has to offer.
> 
> Bottom line, for me, I can't afford "quality" scans (or scanner);
> either in terms of time or money.
> 
> YMMV
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
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