I have to say whenever I give talks at camera clubs and the debate between RAW vs. JPEG pops up I turn to my film experience days as a reference.
Shooting in b/w with my own darkroom where I could push-pull the film's sensitivity and dodge and burn in the printing process was similar to shooting RAW. Shooting in color (print) where I had no control in the developing/printing meant I had to get it right (including reading the mind of the local lab technician) in the camera the first time around--that sounds very much like shooting JPEG. ... yeah, I can be sentimental about film days but I don't want to go back there again 'seriously' (I still shoot film for fun and as a creative exercise, but nothing life threatening)... On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > I was in Grad School when I first started doing "real" photography. The > University had a camera club (automatic free membership to any student who > wanted it) with fully equipped studio space, several dark rooms, storage > lockers to keep your chemicals and paper if you didn't want to use the > club's. My first job site had a darkroom which was hardly ever used by > anyone but me. Then I moved to another job without such amenities, but had a > friend with darkroom. Then I built my own in a walk-in closet. Then I moved > to my present house (25 years ago). Never did get around to building another > darkroom. When I make my next transition it will be to the house my > father-in-law built 40 years ago. With full darkroom. I will probably > convert it to space for the laundry. I miss the dodging/burning, I miss the > magic of seeing the image emerge in the developing tray, I even miss the > smell of the chemicals and the brown stains on my lab apron. But the whole > business was very solitary, asocial. I don't miss that. > > stan > > On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> Ironically, I'm scanning some film tonight. Probably the first time in a >> couple of years. I was looking through some negative envelopes earlier >> today, and I ran across my trailer park shots. Looking at them now, I >> realize I missed some of the better shots first time through. So I'm having >> a bit of fun. I need a break from work. >> Paul >> On Feb 3, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: >> >>> On Feb 3, 2009, at 10:42, Bruce Dayton wrote: >>> >>>> Hmmmm....I don't miss dealing with proof books, I don't miss dealing >>>> with wedding orders (massive amount of time), I don't miss the >>>> inability to shoot on speculation (cost of goods prohibitive), I >>>> don't miss wondering if I got the metering right in tricky >>>> situations, I don't miss shelling out lots of money to buy film and >>>> pay for processing (on my 67 it was about $1.35 per shot for film, >>>> develop, proof), I don't miss wishing I had a different speed film in >>>> the camera at a given moment, I don't miss trying to decide if I >>>> should 'burn' the roll out to get it in for processing because I >>>> wanted some of the pictures on it, I don't miss laboriously scanning >>>> negatives and slides. >>>> >>>> I do miss the fleeting feeling of handing the film over to the lab >>>> (thinking all my work was done - NOT). >>>> >>>> I guess I don't really miss film all that much. >>>> >>> >>> Amen! >>> >>> I miss film in a tactile way.. just like I miss that feeling of picking >>> up an LP from the turntable and deftly flipping it over to side two.. >>> setting it down, cleaning it with the Discwasher, zapping it with the >>> Zerostat, and setting the needle down on it. >>> >>> I miss how it FEELS, but it was a pain to deal with in comparison to now. >>> Film and vinyl... same thing. Nostalgic about some aspects but there is a >>> lot I do NOT miss. >>> >>> -Charles >>> >>> -- >>> Charles Robinson - [email protected] >>> Minneapolis, MN >>> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- 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.
