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Subject: Re: Film Still Best for Many Applications? (was Ruminations... )
You're right, the big dollar pros do have tech assistants. But I don't consider the digital darkroom to be dirty work. The PS conversion is as much fun as the old chemical darkroom. Of course, if someone comes into it cold and assumes that their digital camera is going to spit out great images without any post processing, they're not going to be happy. In that case they're better off going back to film. Then they can let someone else turn the exposure into a picture.
The issue with the guys I know who have gone this route (I know a couple myself) is the time factor.
They can drop film at the lab, and pick up proofs a few hours later or.....
They can shoot a few hundred digital exposures, post process them, then bring the files to the lab for printing.
Some people would rather not work in front of a computer screen, the same way they would rather bring their film to a lab.
William Robb
