Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I couldn't agree with you more. The checks go in the bank the same way, Leica or not. I once had three images run in the same issue, taken with a Leica, a Rollei and a Coolpix 990. Of all the shots, the output from the Coolpix looked the best. A bit disheartening, but what the heck. Myself, I'll cover a lot of events and activities that are not assigned. Eventually they do get picked up. Shooting on digital media saves me a whole lot of effort and capital best placed somewhere else. A few weeks ago, after receiving weekly emails about a garment workers' action, I decided to go cover it. It was a Saturday. On the following Wednesday, I receive a call from The Progressive magazine, asking me if I had anything on it. I e-mailed the two images right away for the current issue. I did use my Rollei, but I've yet to process the film from that shoot. Today I covered a demonstration by hospital workers with the Coolpix, and my M6. I'll probably develop the film at the end of whenever, or maybe next year. The digital file, however, will earn its keep right away. The way things are going, I'll probably get the new canon digital EOS by the end of the year. Slobodan Dimitrov Roy Feldman wrote: > > Let me start saying I love the M series, I use it for doing up close human > interest stories, in low light situations and when the task of carrying a > fully loaded digital kit all day in the field would be so much of a > hardship it would distract from my picture taking ability. That said: > I use the D1x a lot. I shot a catalog (parts on seamless), it consisted of > 70 parts, the images were only going to be 4X6. I was able to (with one > click) balance the color without any filters. The client wanted an end > product of electronic files. By saving the client film, processing and > scanning charges I saved the client about $800 and was able to turn the > job in one day. > A press conference occurred at about 3pm, most papers like to get images > by about 4 to make a deadline, I was able to transmit to the wire within > about 15 minutes the images. > Were they of overwhelming optical merit? No...but...Translated into > newspaper quality they looked great. > This group can look down it's nose at digital capture, but it has paid > for the investment I made in it tenfold by increased jobs. > I will continue to use the M's as a specialized tool, but if I were to say > I use the M or nothing ,I would lose about $40,000 of business a year. > Roy Feldman > Ford Photographic > rfeldma1@ford.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html