Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For years I've been interested in the fine-art potential of digital cameras, and now that I've got an ancient Kodak/Nikon DCS200 DSLR offering full manual control of focus and exposure, things have gotten a bit more interesting! Here are a couple of photos: http://www.boulder.net/~4season/20030403.html Since the color rendition of this DCS200 is IMO pretty ugly, I'm treating it as a black-and-white camera, and I'm using conventional (optical) filtration to get the desired results. My goal is maximize in-camera results and make only relatively minor adjustments afterwards. So far I haven't found a way to duplicate N- and N+ contrast control, and these early digital cameras surely could've benefitted from N- "processing" at times: Contrastier than transparency film, with no tolerance to overexposure. FWIW, using the DCS200 (a stock Nikon 8008s with digital back) has convinced me that grafting a digital back onto a film camera is kludgey: Far better, I think, to design it as a digital camera from the outset and avoid the hassles of having separate batteries for camera body and digital back, or wasting space on a film transport that's never going to transport any film. Having a sub-sub-24x36mm imager is also a pain because the "normal" lenses end up being closer to 20mm, so unless you decend to gaussian-blurring Photoshop whoredom, shallow depth of field becomes an endangered species. Jeff S __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html