----- Original Message ----- From: "gfen" Subject: Re: Okay, I'll shut up now
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Mike Johnston wrote: > > The whole point of digital is that you DON'T have to pay for prints of every > > shot. Just the ones you want. That's supposed to be a GOOD thing. > > Don't have to pay for every picutre on a roll of film, either. You can > tell tehm to just process, y'know.. ;) I keep reading stuff like this about digital. Just print what you want. Just keep what you want and delete the "junk". But only on the net. In the trade magazines, and that wonder of infomercials that comes to my door every other month, I read about photographers who periodically go through their old negatives, sometimes going back decades in time, to see what they were doing, and finding images that were overlooked at the time, for one reason or another, that have turned out to be very fine pictures. The common thread is always something to the tune of if they had been shooting digital, that image might very well have been erased as a non starter, and lost forever. If nothing else, this is the strength of common film. We tend to not delete film images. On another note, I just downloaded a 38mb file from Kodak, a straight dump from the Kodak 14(?)mb camera. A couple of tweaks in photoshop to make it look right on my system, and sent it to the printer. At 8x10, it pretty much matches what I would expect from one of my 4x5 film images printed in the darkroom WRT clarity and granularity. Quite awesome, I must say. William Robb
