Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Emanuel Lowi writes in part: > > 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 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 get to spend endless hours chained to your PC photoshopping and screwing around with your printer after spending a good part of your work day chained to a PC. Give me a good set of B&W negatives and some time to myself in a cool darkroom any day. Regards, Greg