Top news stories today: 1.) Shel Belinkoff becomes staunch defender of digital!
2.) Pigs seen flying over California! ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) Don (Us old dogs CAN learn new tricks,...honest!) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Shel Belinkoff > Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 2:15 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: RE: Coming Soon - A new K-mount Film Camera > > > Interspersed > > Shel > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Jens Bladt > > > 1st > > Speed, is one thing. 2,5 fps and 36 shots in a row. > > No Pentax DSLR can do that. > > Can't some other DSLR's meet or come close to that? > > > > 2nd > > Annother thing is that there's NO crop factor. Meaning more > wide angle for > > the buck. > > New digital wides go down to 10mm. How do their prices compare to various > 15mm lenses? > > > 3rd > > It's so easy to shoot a film, give it to the lab and then pick up nice > > photographs. No hazzle with editing in the computer, cropping, resizing, > > printing etc. > > When the last shot is finished, your work is already done! > > You can turn your card over to a good lab if you want to outsource your > processing. Digital can be just as convenient. In some cases it can be > even more convenient as images can be sent to a lab vial email or uploaded > to a lab's site. No need to make TWO trips to the lab to get film > processed. Further, should you get your film processed and then decide to > get quality prints made from the proofs, that will require yet > another trip > to the lab, assuming you make the printing choice at the time you pick up > the developed film and proof prints. > > > Digital photography is for people that are either rather uncritical > > or have a lot of time on their hands. > > There are people who are very careful and critical about their work using > either film or digital. And I've seen a lot of crap coming from both as > well. > > > > That three very good reason to shoot film. > > That's three reasons why you should shoot whatever pleases you and process > the results in whatever way works best for you. Care to add B&W into the > equation? > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
