Tom Simpson wrote:

> [...] my digital images simply look and print better most anything
> I have ever taken with film, and are a hell of a lot less labor-
> intensive and bother to work with. [...]

Wow, I can only agree with this.  I've never done darkroom "wet"
printing, but I've scanned and printed a ton of 35mm film.  It always
meant minutes per image to go from negative to something that I could
get a decent print from.  So I only did all the work for a few of the
images I took.

With the *ist D and the K10D, I rarely "dink" with them at all to do 8"
x 10" (20cm x 25cm) prints.  I convert the RAW to TIFF in batches, doing
whatever color adjustments (usually none) and sharpening (usually
moderate) are needed during the RAW conversion.  After that, all I do is
crop, size, and print.

My workflow is so much faster with direct-to-digital, and no incremental
film and developing costs, so I'm shooting two to three times as many
frames.  It's pretty handy to have large memory cards, too ... even with
shooting RAW on the K10D, a 2GB card is still two and a half rolls of 24
exposure film.

-- 
Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)

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