Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jesse Hellman said: > Because Ilford was black and white only they may have been more > vulnerable as digital makes film choice unnecessary.<<<, Hi Jesse, As I discovered about setting the Digilux 2 in "shoot B&W only" and the excellent results I'm getting with this mode, I'm more than pleasantly surprised at the quality. Now to be honest, I need a bunch more exposures under various locations and light levels before I'm fully convinced I could go completely digi B&W. But I don't have any doubt that'll happen sometime down the line. Therefore ..................... exit B&W film. And I just discovered the excellent available light results of setting the Digilux 2 "film" sensitivity to 400, then EV underexposing 2 stops making it 1600, now it's even more surprising in the quality of B&W prints at 11.7 X 16.5 size. Now I could be won over to B&W digi as I am in shooting colour. And making bigger prints with the Epson 2200 printer. Time will tell. It's a "do it and discover" for oneself that I find so interesting in this digital field, an exciting adventure to say the least. As I've said before, "I learn by doing" not reading! But when I do read instructions, I only read the parts I'm interested in while using the equipment and don't waste time reading anything if I'll not require it. ERGO: I never read a complete instruction manual. :-) The rest comes from the "experience of doing" as one usually learns far more and faster from their screw-ups and successes than reading about them. I know it's a strange way, but what the heck it's worked a very long time so I don't see any reason to change now. :-) Watch for more nearly .......... "converted to the digital fold!" ;-) Exit film! ted