Re: Hands of Time.......(again)

"Alan P. Hayes" <ahayes@berkshire.rr.com> · Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:19:34 -0400

I'd never heard that about the microdrive. Olympus says that the 
older 340 MB version can't be used with their cameras, though 
apparently it's more that they won't support it if you do. Some 
people think that they are terribly unreliable, but I've had no 
problems with my 1GB model and know of other people who have used 
them for years. They are somewhat slow however, and Compact Flash 
memory is getting very close in price to the microdrive in the larger 
card sizes. Speed of the recording medium may not be the bottleneck 
with the E10 if I recall correctly.

At 7:23 -0400 4/14/03, Russell Baker wrote:
"Another way to do it would be to make contact sheets and scan them,
which might be simpler, though you would want to be careful to get
pretty good contact prints, in order to get a good quality scan."

I was quite aware of that option.............

One of the reasons I am looking into digital is the time factor
(as well as I can't hide my head in the sand and not go with the
future of photography)

Making conventional proofs is  a major part of the time consideration.

I do mostly Theatrical Head Shots.....................
And my customers  want to see every shot that may even
remotely look good, I can't just select a few shots to show them.

I like the idea that when ever I have a few minutes here and there
between other engagements I can work on images at the computer
and don't have to go and set up the chemicals etc for working just
a short period of time.

Of course I do have to learn a whole bunch of new stuff....................

Ain't modern science sumthin'

 I understand that using a microdrive is not recommended on the E 10.

I seem to remember reading in some article that one guy did use one
though......

Any body have any experience on that?

Russ
R.E. Baker
Photography
rebphoto@pronetisp.net

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