[LRFlex] Re: dyed-in-the-wool (fixer?) dinosaurs

  • From: "Bille Xavier F." <hot_billexf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:26:37 +0000

Andy,

I spoke the other night with a photog who is very good with technique: he just said that the most difficult part is to calibrate the Photoshop profile to match the RAW data of the camera (he has not gone into details and this is not the right list to develop) and then it is quite easy to make pictures.

However, the downside of Digital is the resolution. Not better than a 24x36, our beloved reflexes and with a film equivalent of 400 ASA grain.

Yesterday, they weer mounting the albums of last WE photos and the 6x6 let them print in horizontal as well as in vertical. Using a lens of the 60s gives resolution but softness, ideal for portraits.

So? we are so ancient as we pretend.

cheers
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Xavier F. BILLE
Maisons-Alfort - France.





From: "andy Wagner" <yxandy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRFlex] Re: dyed-in-the-wool (fixer?) dinosaurs
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:16:04 -0500

Even though I too am a dinosaur, we can't buck the tide forever. It is an interesting theory though; A wedding photog shoots his wedding, downloads the card and via wireless internet sends the raw files to his lab which does the photoshop work and returns the files along with the proper profiles to print the pics. Kinda Buck Rogersey but considering what I was saying just a year ago regarding digital and the advances they've made in a year it might not be that far off

From: "Steven Rosenthal" <steverose108@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [LRFlex] dyed-in-the-wool (fixer?) dinosaurs
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 10:18:27 -0700

That is interesting to hear how this digital/film debate is settling out at
least in regards to wedding photographers. What it sounds like is a real
business opportunity for some enterprising soul to set up a service business
to do the back end of their digital business so they can just concentrate on
shooting.... the way a good trusted lab can support a film shooter. Don't
know if this would work but it might be a whole new industry. Since I just
shoot for fun at this point, and mostly B&W, I too am a happy film
dinosaur...
S

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Young" <dnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 8:47 AM
Subject: [LRFlex] Re: Change at the top.


At 10/9/2004, you wrote:

>Xavier:
>
>I know of some wedding photographers who are close to switching back
>because they are finding that they are spending twice as much time
>producing prints digitally, than they did when using film.
>
>One in particular is "up all night" using Photoshop.
>
>Jim


I am told, by several knowledgeable sources, that in Vancouver, Canada, the
switch by wedding photogs back to film is now virtually 100%. Simply put,
they can send the film to the lab and go out and shoot another
wedding. Film, for them, is more cost effective.

For those pros doing work where speed is of the essence, or the few doing
photo murals where digital is easier to stitch together, fine.  But for
many pros, digital has proved a financial disaster.

Ich bin ein film dinosaurier!
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David Young,     | égalité, liberté,
Victoria, CANADA | fraternité et Beaujolais.

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