Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks like you had a lot of fun with that 300. Great casual shots. Perfect for people photography: you capture them at their peak of innocence. Thanks for showing, People Op 10-dec-06, om 01:53 heeft Eric het volgende geschreven: > Walt: > >> Get a Nikon Coolscan for $600 and let Walgreens process your film (no >> prints, process only) for $2.15 a roll. After that, you can decide on >> color or b&w while sitting in front of your PC. An Epson 1280 for >> $300 >> will turn out a fine 11x14 and if you get after market inks the >> print is >> archival. (whatever that is supposed to mean) This will let you save >> $4000 so get a $400 Canon from Target and put away the rest for a >> nice >> trip to Vegas. :-) > > The day my local photo store "ate" a roll of film was the day I > realized > that if the pictures were important, I wasn't handing film over to a > minimum-wage processor. First pictures of my first child being > held by my > mom...soon after her kidney transplant, which enabled her to live long > enough to see her grandchild. Nothing a film credit can't > replace. :) > > Since then, I've moved to a smaller town. (3 million to 150k.) > There just > isn't a local, reliable photofinisher here. I tried. Heck, we > can't even > bring down a building using dynamte: > http://canid.com/zip_feed_mill/zip_feed_mill_23302.html :) > > I even tried sending my color film off to a pro shop in another > town. That > worked for a while. After they used my film to clean the rollers > on their > chairs, I tried another place. Until they dragged it through > the-deity-of-your-choice-knows-what. The last color film I shot > was the one > I spent about 2 hours per finished print meticulously cloning out > scratches > and spotting out dust. That's when I realized I had to go to digital > capture to preserve what little sanity I had left. > > Just to bring this around to the topic, the higher speed ISO on my > Canon 5D > is so smooth, I don't even hesitate to shoot at 640. That's a > "normal" ISO > for me. Looks as good as what I used to get with ISO 100 film: > > http://canid.com/current/061209_003.html > > Caution: don't click on thumbnails unless you want to see tons of > family > pics. These are pretty much straight out of the camera without > edits, yet. > I put pics here for the family, and then later, I'll go back and > edit/touch > up the keepers in photoshop. These are with a 300/4 + 1.4x. I > wanted to > play with my new toys. :) > > Realistically, I know I'm not going to buy an M8. (Unless I come > into a lot > of unexpected found money. As in winning the lottery. Except I > never play. > :) I really hope this succeeds for Leica, though, because I think > I'll be > ready to buy an M10 or M11. If it's possible to love an inanimate > object, I > love the M series. My SLRs are just tools. My M6 is a work of art. > > > > > -- > Eric > http://canid.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >