On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:16 PM, t.piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:01 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Completely useless? How so? How does he feel about the experience? > > No I'm not going there. If you think learning to load film into a developing > tank is a useful skill, you are going to have to defend it.
Let's not begin by suggesting that loading developing tanks is the only skill associated with film worthy of mention. Can't you think of anything about working with film that is of use in digital photography? I can tell you that knowing what images captured on film can look like, as well as techniques used in the darkroom and what those techniques accomplish, is extremely useful knowledge in the world of digital photography. After all, digital photography is, for the most part, an attempt to mimic film and is typically measured against what can be achieved with that older medium. Obsolete in the eyes of many, film remains the gold standard in the art of photography. Film has advantages over digital, and if one is familiar with those advantages by way of experience gained by using film, that knowledge can influence and guide a digital photographer to do better work. I've been around loads of people who take pictures, pros as well as amateurs, back in the heyday of film as well as today in the digital world. Folks who shot film, even those folks who only took snapshots, knew and understood a lot more about what they were doing back in the day than do most digital shooters of today. For instance, they understood and could therefore anticipate over and under exposure, they knew about depth of field and how to use it to good effect, and they knew about the various film size formats and what was best for certain occasions. Most digital shooters don't have a clue about any of that stuff, will never take their camera off the "Auto" setting, and will let the camera make every decision about every shot they ever take. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
