Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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? =============== 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. ========== 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