Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/09

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Digital Module R sensor vs EOS 1D IIS
From: lowiemanuel at yahoo.ca (Emanuel Lowi)
Date: Thu Dec 9 07:49:01 2004

Ted Grant wrote:
 
> But then many a night was spent after shooting film,
> souping, then over 
> night in trays making 200 8X10 prints "supposedly
> required for 9 a.m. the 
> next morning panic delivery." Done and delivered on
> time only to find two 
> days later prints were sitting in exactly the same
> spot on the clients desk 
> and never touched. So speed and spin doctors,
> digital and film are the same 
> thing when one sells themselves as a professional
> service.


This is what I hear most as the reason formerly
devoted Leica film shooters are switching to digital:
they complain about the hours they had to spend doing
darkroom drudgery.

The solution: stop doing darkroom work. I did, years
ago. For me, photography is all about stepping out
into the light, not about locking myself into a dark
cabinet complete with mephitic fumes.

The problem with film photography is darkroom work,
not the speed or the results obtained with film. Find
yourself a good local custom lab and keep shooting
film -- that's been my solution, for many years.

As Tom A. says in his excellent Epson review today,
you shoot the digital images, burn them to a CD, and
then what? 

You invest in pricey droplets of jetable ink and
costly paper that is destined to fade in sunlight. You
babysit your computer and printer. You become a
manager of batteries, needing recharging almost every
day of serious shooting. You start worrying about
software and hardware upgrades, because you're now
caught in the "I gotta have the newest" marketing
trap. I betcha it all adds up to as much time and
hassle as darkroom work, yet  it seems somehow more
slick because of all those nice newly stylish gadgets
you've just bought yourself.

I shoot slide film in my Leicas. I love my local
custom lab. I'd rather fight than switch.

Emanuel Lowi
Montreal



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