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Subject: [Leica] Re: Film vs. Digital (details)
From: SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)
Date: Thu Nov 3 06:18:14 2005

In a message dated 11/3/2005 12:44:03 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com writes:

>>Hi Sonny,
>>are you  giving up on digital because you tend not to print from   
>>digital files or because of print  longevity?

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I tend to not print from digital files, but  there's more:  I work in the 
Archives, my main job being digitization and  access to a vast photo 
collection 
from this region.  The pictures that were  taken as art, or general 
landscapes 
seem to have less value to researchers, and  others who have need for a look 
back into the past to see how we and others  lived back then. I recently 
realized, even though I keep all my digital files,  that  I can't just pick 
up a 
album or a shoebox, and look back at about the  last two years of my 
family's 
life.  

These are important  years.  My sons have been moderately successful in 
their 
music, both my  parents passed away,  one daughter is getting married, we 
had 
a family  reunion that included others that are no longer with us.    

It's not just my own work I'm thinking of, but I believe we as a  
civilization are headed for a void in the record of our lives and how we 
lived  them.. 

==============

>>I am a keen amateur but I  find, whilst I - much - prefer using my M6  
>>a digital camera  suits my requirements much better. I take a camera  
>>everywhere  but rarely take more than a handful of shots. 
===========

Now that  I'm back to film, I shoot about 36 exposures a week, unless I am 
on 
a  project.
===============

>>The ability  to change ISO to  suit conditions and to download my pictures 
as soon  
>>as I get  home are the deciding factors for me for everyday use.
>>I still use  digital in difficult, mixed lighting conditions at work, and 
for quick copies of  >>photos and documents to show archive clients over 
email. 
 Saves  sending big scans, and >>also, some over sized paintings and maps I 
could  not scan anyhow.  If it is what they >>want, then we reproduce the  
material in a manner suitable for their needs.


>>When we went  on holiday to Iceland this August I took film and  
>>digital  cameras - I took 12 rolls of film and 1400 digital pictures.   

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Yeah, I went on vacation this year and shot only 6 frames  of film, all the 
some  300 digital images are on a hard-drive.  Again,  my point about being 
able to  browse them on my easy  chair.

=================
>>Due to lack of spare time I have so  far scanned 4 frames from the  
>>film (one evenings work for me)  but I have looked at a fair  
>>proportion of the digital  shots.
==============

If you had processed the film and made 4 x 6  prints you could have looked 
at 
all of them now, and chosen the few to scan, and  kept the others in a nice 
shoebox.  By the way, they make archival  shoeboxes made of  non-buffered 
materials to protect the  photos.

http://www.archivalmethods.com/category.cfm?categoryid=39

=======================
>>If  there is a digital M which feels like my M6 and at least matches   
>>35mm film I will almost certainly get one, I much prefer the M to  a  
>>reflex and will be glad to be able to use my lovely M and  LTM lenses  
>>more often again.
>>all the  best,
>>Frank
=======================

I probably won't get a digital M, unless forced to.  My Leica M7's  seem to 
me to be the ultimate cameras for almost everything I do.

There  are however, times I need macro, a longer lens, or great haste and  I 
 
will probably continue my Friday Flowers with my Pentax *istDs, because it  
allows me lots of flexibility for those things.  


Regards,  
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
?galit?, libert?, crawfish
 


Replies: Reply from dcm at pobox.com (David C. Mason) ([Leica] Re: Film vs. Digital (details))
Reply from Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie) ([Leica] Re: Film vs. Digital (details))