Your comment made me smile Chuck. I ran a roll of Ektar 100 through a new
(to me) camera last week to check for light leaks, exposure accuracy, etc.
I had the film processed by the local drugstore and was really disappointed
with their quality control - scratches & dust on most frames. They were
still doing a pretty good job when I last used them a couple of years ago
but I'm guessing that they don't do enough volume now to keep people
trained. Looks like mail order processing is in the cards for me if I do
decide to shoot any more film.
BTW, that was my first time for using Ektar and it shows a lot of potential
- sharp, nice saturation, fine grained and scans as easily as positive
films.
Cya,
Johnny
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On Feb 13, 2012 10:44 AM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Having purchased 5 rolls of film from B&H this past week (the first in
> many years) I have suddenly become even less attached to it.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 2/13/2012 10:00 AM, Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> > Hi Chuck, and all :)
> >
> > Yes, never left the list but turned to a lurking mode, defining this
> > to myself as reading and learning rather than speaking. Sort of
> > active lurking.
> >
> > Besides, explored dozens of other "photographic" websites.
> > Amazed that in these days, billions of people considered themselves
> > "photographers" - I'm just running out of another 'social network'
> > named Diaspora.
> > You know, maybe Facebook is not that bad, compared to the others I
> > visited. Flickr qualifies as rather good enough, far above average
> > (photo-speaking).
> >
> > Besides, I have not been shooting that much. Could add that among
> > other things, sending film to Dwayne's for processing has put a more
> > strict judgement about what I would be shooting to. And that this
> > summer, I got a long lasting back-ache when trying to pick-up my
> > medium weight Manfrotto out of my car's trunk :-(
> >
> > The more I wander through the internet, the more I become attached to
> film.
> >
> > Fernando.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Chuck Norcutt
> > <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hey, Fernando is still here! :-)
> >>
> >> Chuck Norcutt
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