[Leica] More with the Rolleiflex

Wed May 2 18:57:40 PDT 2018

For everything they tell you about on an upgrade there's two dozen fixes and tweaks they don't.
Always use the latest software in your work. It’s a no brainer.
On other LUG and other lists the members ruminate on if the latest upgrade is worth the money. That’s the first I'd ever heard that one in the real world of serious photography practice no one every discusses upgrades you just get them and install it its very exciting.  
Most of my software now upgrades are automatic on my Apple operating system, my Microsoft Office system and my Adobe system. Also my Google Chrome Browser. (woof!), and Filemaker Database I've been using since 1986. 99.9% of my computer world.
I wake up in the morning and  as often as not they don’t even tell me I've been upgraded. They think rightly its maybe better I don’t know. I might get too excited and start playing around with stuff I don't understand.. 
And they take as much money out of my bank account as the feel is fair and I trust them. And if I didn’t trust them it wouldn't matter as they are by far the largest most powerful companies in the world and the own me. They leave me with enough for food and printing paper and my MTA subway and bus pass.
Often its compatibility issues which normal people could not in a million years even begin to comprehend in a software upgrade especially stuff having to to with photography.
You time is money your gear is expensive don’t skimp on what is the digital equivalent of your darkroom enlarger and chemistry.
In a better world of silver idealism we'd not be using equivalents but trusting our images to a 100mm Schneider Componon-S enlarging lens and Amidol paper developer. And a better staple gun to make more drying screens.

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 5/2/18, 6:43 PM, "LUG on behalf of Lluis Ripoll via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    Hi Mark!

    Thank you very much for your comment ! I have download the trial version of Capture One last release V11 and I’ve found it not necessary for my work because the improvements of this release is mainly for color work, the upgrade it’s not a fortune, it is about 120 Euro, I have started with CO many years ago when the M8 came with this software, I’ve followed every upgrade up today. Beside the darroom chemicals process i think the only think can improve my work would be a good scanner, my printer is already quite good Epson SC-P600, but actually I’m not too much concerned for the digital printing, because I think that the wet process is the best one shooting film as I actually do.

    I really appreciate your advices, thanks again!
    Lluis

    > El 2 maig 2018, a les 4:06, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> va escriure:
    > 
    > I may have under estimated you, Lluis and thought you were scanning snapshots! The fact that you are scanning negs not scanning machine prints puts you in the running. Makes you the real deal. 
    > As far as I've gone it's always been about Photoshop but Capture One v10.0 is serious software costing real money used by some good people though it usually I think goes along with medium format digital use or digital back use. Regardless it's been updated a few times to  v10.1 Released May 4, 2017,  
    > v11. Released Nov. 30th, 2017, 
    > v11.0.1. Released Jan. 18, 2018. 
    > You might check it out for a hundred bucks it may be a whole new ballgame and make for better end results on our screens and so on.
    > Unless you have a simplified version which came with your scanner...
    > 
    > Its not good though that I thought your prints were scanned unmanupiated snapshots (otherwise known as machine prints.)  That’s a lower level of work found in ones bottom drawer shoebox and with your gear and body of work I'd guess you are thinking bigger I know you've had shows on the walls.
    > So keep working at it day by day and get the upgrade. With every image you crunch you do better ; it all adds up. Being involed in the processing makes you a more aware photogrphaer in the field. 
    > (By the way "processing" means "editing" or "post" or "manipulation" in todays double speak. 
    > Any way you say it its making the picture..  That's how I see it.
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    > Mark William Rabiner
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