I'm sorry but your digital workflow listed below is not simpler than 35mm film. The 35mm camera is simpler, even a sosphisticated one, and it is much easier to unload a film cassette and drop off then to have to download and review and edit photos on a PC before dropping off.
There are still plenty of people who don't want to and maybe don't even know how to use the more complicated digicams and PCs. So I do not agree with your original statement that digital is simpler than 35mm film from a user standpoint, quite the contrary. JCO -----Original Message----- From: billy abbott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Billy Abbott Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: It's over (was Re: Ilford in trouble? and digi snappers) On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > 35mm Film is EASIER than digital, that's why a lot of people still use > 35mm. Take the pix with autoeverything camera, drop off the film, get > a bag full of prints. Or take your digital P&S, review the pictures on the screen on the back, deleted the ones you don't like and then drop off the memory card and get back a bag full of prints that you have chosen out of the ones that you took. Most people I know who shoot digital with a P&S don't play around with their pictures in photoshop or anything - they treat the camera just like a film one, but with the ability to delete the ones they don't want and then also email/website-ify the pictures without having to scan. This makes, in my opinion and that of my digitally enabled non-photographically obsessed friends, it easier to shoot digital. For the pro's and hobbyists I can see some elements that are more difficult (learning photoshop/whatever and then tweaking the images you want), but it has enough benefits (consumables cost, ease of storage etc) that i see those mainly outweighed in the long run. That said, I got my digital camera (a P&S that got me into taking photos again a little while back) out for the first time in months yesterday. I still shoot film because I like it as it's part of a different process (to me) than using a digicam. billy (who ended up shooting weird low light experimental abstracty shots with the digicam - the sort of thing that would burn through rolls of film in my "real" camera - and now has some new ideas of some things to try on film) -- "Your Honor, ladies and gentleman of the, of the audience, I don't think it's fair to call my clients frauds. Okay, so the blackout was a big problem for everybody, okay? I was stuck in an elevator for two hours, and I had to make the whole time. But, I don't blame them, 'cause one time I turned into a dog and they helped me. Thank you." Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
