----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Sullivan" Subject: Re: The Morning Fix
>I resent that, so does my pocket protector! Regards, Bob S. At least you saw the humour in it. After 20 years of shooting almost exclusively with 4x5, I found the move to digital to be very enabling in some respects, but very frustrating in others. When you shoot 4x5, you are very conscious of how much film you are shooting. Every time you trip the shutter, it costs a dollar for B&W, as much as $5.00 for colour transparencies. Add to this the lack of ability to carry large numbers of unexposed film into the field, and one needs to have very strict discipline. I think I have a couple of dozen film holders. That allows me to shoot 48 exposures before I need to find a dark place that I can reload. I like to bracket my exposures, and also shoot a couple of extra sheets for insurance against processing damage, so it wouldn't be unusual to shoot 4-6 sheets of film on a single scene. So, I can shoot 8-10 pictures before I am done, and I've spent $50-250.00 on film to do it. Contrast that to shooting digital, which is, for all intents and purposes, free. There are no input costs after the equipment is purchased, and the equipment is cheap compared to large format equipment. I've been shooting digital with absolutely no regard to any kind of disciplined approach for a few years now, simply because I can. I'm now finding that I am getting back to something more like the approach I took with film, and am not pulling the trigger just because I have something in my sights. One thing I have discovered though, is that while one can fix a bunch of stuff in post processing, it is still best to get it right in camera, and not waste your life fiddling with a substandard image later. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
