Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hmm - I am all for the digi-revolution! Used hassie equipment seems to dropping in price daily at KEH.com.. Photographers throw off your 6x6 cams and 220 backs .. I want them! Eric - ----- Original Message ----- From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 5:12 PM Subject: [Leica] The new digital reality - > Last night, during the American Masters documentary on Robert Capa, the > comment was made that in the 30s, Capa and folks like him were excited > by, and experimenting with, the new 35 mm photo technology and the new > possibilities it offered. I was particularly struck by that, and thought > - why was that transition really any different from the present > transition between film and digital? And don't respond by telling me > that the transition from film to digital represents a deterioration, > because when you think about it, that's also precisely what the switch > to 35 from 4x5 represented. But what the advent of the 35 mm camera - > the Leica - gave people was a way to carry light-weight equipment and > shoot quickly, which they hadn't been able to do previously. Yes, the > digital SLRs are big and comparatively heavy - but not that big and that > heavy. And they take the concept of shooting freedom to a new level - > > Today is Thursday - Tuesday I got a phone call from an editor at a > Brazilian high-tech mag asking if I could provide a portrait of an MIT > professor - and get it to them by end of day today as a digital file. > The prof was available at noon today. I shot him, drove home, downloaded > the images to the computer, produced a Photoshop web page of 12 images, > and had the images up on the web for the Brazilians to choose from by 1 > p.m. They then made a selection and gave me the dimensions and their FTP > address, and they had a final image from me by three p.m. - just three > hours after the shoot - (and during the three hours I also had a > doctor's appointment and ran a couple of errands.) > > Oh - and Tuesday I spent shooting for a freelance story I'm doing for a > major U. S. newspaper, and by 5 p.m had 90 images on the web for the > photo editor to look at. Why 90 images? The editor wanted to see my > entire shoot to get a feel for how I work. > > Would the results of both these jobs look better if shot with Ms and > chrome, or Fuji color neg film? Probably. Would that difference be > evident in the magazine or newspaper? No way - and I'd still be scanning > the stuff from the Tuesday shoot. ;-) > > The point of all this? You tell me. ;-) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of eric > korenman > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:04 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] Slightly OT: C-41 b&w films > > > Yup - my experience exactly. > Although XP2 can yield an interesting grainy look when you want it. TCN > skin tones are always creamy smooth and zero grain (well - dye clouds, > but y'know what I mean). > > Any opinions on shooting TCN 400 at 250? > > Eric > > >From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith@dcc.edu> > >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > >Subject: RE: [Leica] Slightly OT: C-41 b&w films > >Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:46:07 -0500 > > > >Let me just barge in here <g>. XP2 is susceptible to blown highlights > >when shot at 400. If you rate it lower, it blows them out even worse. > >If you rate it higher, it looks grainier. T400CN seems to be less > >likely to do this. > > > >Jeffery > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > >[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Rolfe > >Tessem > >Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:03 PM > >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > >Subject: Re: [Leica] Slightly OT: C-41 b&w films > > > > > >Ernest Nitka wrote: > > > Oliver > > > As others have said the XP2 just doesn't cut it anymore. > > > ><snip> > > > >Ernie, > > > >What problems have you had with XP2 that lead you to that conclusion? > > > >Rolfe > > > >-- > >Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. > >rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street > >(212) 463-0029 | New York, Ny 10014 > > > >-- > >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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > -- > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html