Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Washington Field Trip
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:14:30 -0700
References: <20030604182652.58032.qmail@web80408.mail.yahoo.com>

Bob

Your photographic methods from equipment to getting the
prints to the parents agree with my opinions.  But one
question;  How many tranquilizers did you need on the trip? :-)

Jerry

Bob Adler wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Last week I had the priviledge of traveling with my
> daughter's 7th grade class on a field trip to D.C. 41
> 12/13 year old girls, 10 chaperones, an M6, M7, 35/2,
> 50/1,4, 90/2,8, SF20 and Mr. Konnerman's soft-fill.
> Additionally, Mr. Brick was generous enough to loan me
> his RapidWinder which was placed on the M7. I wanted
> to share some thoughts with you about the performance
> of my equipment and film vs digital.
>
> One of the primary reasons that I moved to Leica was
> to downsize the weight/volume of the equipment I had
> to carry on "assignments" like this without loss (and
> perhaps increase) of optical quality. I was able to
> carry all of this photo equipment, plus cleaning
> supplies in a small, Domke PhotoRunner pack. What a
> delight! All that photo capability hanging on my hip
> at minimal weight and easily accessible.
>
> The equipment performed absolutely flawlessly. I shot
> 10 rolls and got back 346 well exposed (and if I may
> boast a little, well focused!) negatives. My M7
> batteries went down, but I expected that and had
> spares, so not a shot was missed. I love this
> equipment!!
>
> I've often thought of moving back to SLRs for digital
> shooting. I was concerned that digital would be better
> for this type of trip as I could see if I got a shot,
> could shoot a lot more, and could distribute the
> results to the parents quickly (electronically). From
> this experience, I'd say there is no need. My
> negatives were developed with 2 prints each and medium
> sized TIFF files burned to CDs for each roll within 24
> hours. I uploaded all the images for the parents to
> Ofoto (a Kodak website for sharing and ordering
> prints) and as of this morning (Wednesday) all the
> families have access to all the photos to view and
> order as desired. I have a CD and two identical photo
> albums to give to the school. I don't think digitial
> would have been any faster and I have the alternative
> to scan any negatives I like at a higher resolution
> for more artistic display if desired.
>
> So I have the best of all worlds; a compact photo
> system that works flawlessly and provides beautiful
> images, rapid sharing across a geographically diverse
> community, and the ability to capture images to a
> medium that gives me the flexibility of old or new
> technologies for higher quality reproduction. Man, it
> WAS worth it!!
>
> Thanks for reading. As I work on a couple of the
> images I like, I'll post them for you to see. I was
> just so thrilled with how all this worked together I
> wanted to share these thoughts with you.
> Bob
>
> =====
> Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> rgacpa@pacbell.net
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