Hi Mark,
Yeah, I got caught up in that silly compromise: Shoot Kodak Ektar
and have COSTCO process it and scan negatives to a CD.
Not a bad idea if you like digitally printed photos and scanned
images at 72 dpi.
YIKES!
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:35:01 -0400
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: If Capa had digital
> From: mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Hi Austin,
> >
> > Everything you mentioned regarding film vs. digital is true more
or less. I
> > don't know how common it is to simply write over previously made
images, but
> > I'll take your word for it.
> >
> > But I find it true and difficult for Rolleiflex users to accept
the fact that
> > one can not avoid digital photography.
> > If one is seriously involved and provides photography for a
client or
> > organization one must almost certainly employ digital
photography or get left
> > behind. Sacrocanct as the qualities of Schneider and Zeiss once
were, today
> > they are almost irrelevant.
>
>
> Shooting film and having them scanned is not such a bad compromise
if it
> means being able to still use my twin lens Rolleiflex camera every
once in a
> while..
> You can get places who can make nice sized scans and put them all
on a CD
> when they run your C41 film for you. Adds twenty buck to it. Those
scans
> can be just fine for the internet, small prints and most things.
Sticking
> that CD into your computer and putting them with all the rest of
your
> captured files takes a minute and then you can pretend you shot it
digitally
> in the first place in no time.. Just don't start looking for
metadata
> telling you what f stop you used.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
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