Everybody else are being so rational and objective about this
topis.....I'll see if I can counter that with a strictly emotional argument
;)
I like using film....simply because I LIKE BEING IN THE DARKROOM. I spend
all day in front of a computer, so the chance to get in to do something
without one is, to me, important.
I like reeling the freshly fixed film off the roll and walk impatiently
around until it's dry enough to print......or seeing the print emerge
slowly from the developer. I like how to selectively expose the different
parts of the prints through forming weird shapes with my hands, pretinding
to immitate Ansel Adams (while knowing that to be a futile task).
Digital can never do that for me, so the "quality" of digital imageing is
not satisfactory on that front. Can never be, since the analog process is
part of what I appreciate about photography.
I do have a digital camera -- a Pentax Optio S4. Smaller than a tin of
mints, it can go with me everywhere. I stuff its SD-card in the appropriate
slot of my HP PSC2510 printer, get a contact sheet out, on which I mark the
pictures to print, stuff the contact sheet into the scanner and then go
away while the printer does its own thing for a while. I don't know what it
does, but a half hour later, and my prints are ready -- pure magic! Great
for snapshots, when I travel for business and am tight on time (no planned
days off for serious photography anyways) or space (damm work requires
travelling with fragile stuff -- gos from the cabin-allowance). And 90% of
the photos that I get out of there are probably still better than the
average "casual snapshot", just by thinking a little on composition before
tipping the shutter. That's consumption, I know. I've tried to sit down for
a weekend and learn how to use gimp on my digital photograps -- but it
feels too much like work to be in front of a computer. No, give me my
MeOpta enlarger, my Nikkor-lens and my trays and chemicals, ensure that the
CDFO is off somewhere ("Dear, you should go visit your parents this
weekend....") such that I can occupy the kitchen non-stop (eat?
Whatdayamean eat, we had dinner on friday, no?).
Each to his own. I am the first to recognize that C.H.Ling and others have
done stunning work in digital. I am just not (yet) at the point where doing
digital work brings me as much pleasure as analog stuff in the darkroom.
And sine I am doing photography purely for my own pleasure, my choise is
simple: I'll remain a dinosaur for a while longer....;) So I don't care if
XXXXdpi gets YY% of the info out of a film, or if a 10Gpixel (that'd be
gazillion-pixel) QMOS sensor has a higher resolving power than a
Kodakchrome 25 or a Neopan 100. I do care if the local pusher has Rodinal
on sale, though....
There ;)
Cheers,
--thomas
(hanging around on his 4th consecutive week on the road for work this
summer, and longing for his home and darkroom)
...... Original Message .......
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 07:44:36 -0400 "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>Simon,
>
>I don't mean to be rude, but I don't believe you are speaking from
>experience. Your comment that a 4000dpi film scan was not giving film a fair
>advantage and your suggested approach suggests to me that you're new to this
>topic. 4000dpi is one heck of a scan. The Minolta will do 5400dpi, but I
>would suspect the difference is small
>
>If you comparing (in your head) to a flatbed scanner, than, well, that's
>just wrong.
>
>The amount of information in a film scan is clearly significantly greater.
>The quality of the information in the DSLR is better. Quality may be the
>wrong word, but you get my drift.
>
>A lot of people here with years of experience in both media, including
>myself, and I fear you're heading down the wrong path.
>
>Tom
>
>>
>> If this is the case, then it's a huge pity, and clearly DSLRs are going to
>> come out ahead every time. Reducing the huge amount of data on a 35mm
>> frame down to 6MP is absolute sacrilege.
>>
>> Maybe I need to switch to transparencies and get myself a projector so I
>> can see my photos on a wall at 4' x 3'. It seems that this is the only way
>> I could only appreciate the detail that films offers!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Simon Worby
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