----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Weyn" : I have to disagree with you guys to a point about older camera's being boat : anchors, unless you're just referring to the older digital models, in which : case I agree. But, I have 2 Nikon F4's (an F4s and an F4e) and I love them. : Although they are the older technology, in my opinion they are still the : best choice. I wouldn't trade them, not even for a D2x digital. In fact, my : next step upward, aside from better glass, will be to medium and full : format. it's funny isn't it? No one was ever heard years back saying 'dump that old fashioned large format / medium format junk and shoot the more convenient 35mm if you want to be a pro!' now it's more like 'dump anything that might take time, and shoot with the most convenient camera you can! : For me, there's a romance about film that I just can't get with digital; but : having said that, there are advantages to mixing both in processing: Because : I market my images on-line, I make hi-res scans of the negs, do my darkroom : editing in PS, then send to my lab for printing. The quality of the final : printed image is excellent - as good as optical with today's technology, and : the consistency from print to print is awesome. I also bypass the longevity : problem completely because I still have the negs here's a trick for you - and for anyone thinking of getting a heap of film material to digital quickly.. buy an old slide copier and shoot the film digitally ;) you can crank through a lot of images in the time it takes for a single scan. A neat trick if you have a couple of thousand images to be digitized k
