In a message dated 2/3/2009 4:09:16 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
What Paul said. Although I think I was doing film for only two years before going digital, it, frankly, hoovered. No local lab did the colors in color prints the way I thought they should (though one I could go in and discuss it with them). Then when I switched to slides to get around that (keep the colors as they came out on the film), I had to scan. And scanners, well, DUST. (Of course I was using a flatbed, but I wasn't about to drop the big bucks on something better, because they WERE big bucks back then). No, truthfully, I LOVE digital. (BTW, if one wants easy digital just shot JPEGs instead of RAW. And take them as they come out. Thousands, whatever, hundreds of thousands of P&Ss users do that.) Marnie :-) (Firm RAW shooter, well, not that firm, gotta lose weight. Staunch.) ===================== On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Jens wrote: > Hello > Sometimes I want the film-days back. Imagine how easy it is to shoot > some film and have a good lab develop the prints. The lab will > darken the too bright images, correct colors and brighten the to > dark images. Then you choose the 10 % best and send them for > scanning. Then you give the CD to your client. > > No more long hours at the computer converting or editing all your > RAW files, tagging them, filing them, changing hard drives etc. for > your images. Just give the client the prints and the CD. Get paid. > End of story! > > Those where the days, ehh? > Um, no. I never found a lab that could print a negative the way I saw it. Even the best labs relied on their vision of what a shot should be, not mine. That's why I shot a lot of BW and risked poisoning my system with chemicals, day after day, for hours on end. And scanning? Unless I paid top dollar for drum scans at the pro lab, the results were crap. I had to scan myself and couldn't really afford the best equipment, particularly for medium format. Those were not the days. Paul --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. **************Who's never won? Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?ncid=emlcntusmusi00000001) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
