Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gib Robinson said: > I've found no downside to shooting with digital. I'm ecstatic about > photographing in a way I haven't been in years.<<<< Gib absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) I've found with digital the same wonderment and excitement I had the first time I developed the first roll of film after my wife gave me my birthday gift camera May 27, 1950! :-) Along with watching the first print appear in the developer tray!!!! These are photo memories never to be forgotten as I'm sure I'll remember my first digital camera in similar fashion many years from now. Well OK a few years down the line depending on how the rest of my life lasts. :-) But they'll be sweet memories no matter how long. And like you, I've found I shoot far more than I did with film, although I find it amazing it's possible considering the documentaries I've done shooting hundreds of rolls on one assignment. But it's true! With digital there's far more .... "Oooohhhh Jeeeeeeesh look at that!!!" click-click, change angle, click, change again, ... click, get lower.... click! How does it look from over here... click... click and so on! Milking the situation for all it's worth far more than shooting film and trust me I used film like running water! Neither do I find any down side, maybe a tad in spending more time at the computer, but just relate that to time in the darkroom and it's not really that different. Certainly for me. However, I find I've become far more in tune with the "Light room" these days. A bonus for digital. I suppose it still comes down to different strokes for different folks, but without question I'd not switch back to film because I can't see any reason why I would. And after last week with the M8 and it's results I'd find it extremely difficult to go back to film with an M camera. I mean I've learned the great values of SLR digital through my Canon 20D with Leica glass and in that case, there's not really much chance I'd ever return to slide film again. But who knows! ;-) ted