On 17-Jan-08, at 11:01 AM, James Schenken wrote:
Quality, film prices, and processing costs will eventually drive
the large format folks to digital as well.
James,
I am sorry, but I believe your statement below is not one with which
many experienced large format
film users might agree.
I have been using large format film for some 55 years, medium format
for some 30, and 35mm for some
40-odd.... digital? .... a 6 year-old Nikon that gets used for
quick'n dirty.
Somehow... (and I do not wish to rain on your parade), I believe that
the end-use/economy/speed is not
always the factor used for the photographer's decision making.
Many of us no longer pursuing photography as a commercial business
have most likely lost some interest
in high saturated colour images, but still enjoy the challenge of
placing our large format cameras, getting under
the dark-cloth... composing on the ground glass, 'fiddling' with rise
and fall, swings and/or tilts, choosing
the appropriate f/stop and shutter speed and MAKING A PHOTOGRAPH.
Our equipment may be well over 50 years of age, but have not had to
update the hardware every two years,
the software as required, or deal with the assistant who would not
recognise the emulsion side of a sheet of
film to save their lives.... we may believe that spending all these
hours in font of a computer monitor can be
better spent.
We may prefer the time spent in the darkroom listening to the
preferred music.... or the gentle tick of the
metronome that is older that we are.......
and can go to bed at night believing we have been in 'control' from
the beginning.
Ken
Seagoon: Any cases of frozen feet?
Eccles: You didn't order any cases of frozen feet!
