frank theriault wrote:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Jens <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello
Sometimes I want the film-days back. Imagine how easy it is to shoot some film
and have a good lab develop the prints. The lab will darken the too bright
images, correct colors and brighten the to dark images. Then you choose the 10
% best and send them for scanning. Then you give the CD to your client.
No more long hours at the computer converting or editing all your RAW files,
tagging them, filing them, changing hard drives etc. for your images. Just give
the client the prints and the CD. Get paid. End of story!
Those where the days, ehh?
I was lucky to have had a terrific lab to work with. I'd go pick up
my negs, look at them under a loupe, pick which ones I wanted to be
made into 8x10 working prints and say "Robert, the usual, please!"
I'd go back in a week and they'd be lovely (at least the printing
would be). Then I'd pay him $14 a print and take them home.
And there's the rub, right there in the last paragraph. Time and
money. Film took a long time and was expensive.
The results were great, but I do like shooting a hundred or more in an
outing and having a bunch of them ready to go that night or next day.
I once drove 5 hours to West Virginia and camped out overnight to get
sunrise shots in the Dolly Sods Wilderness. Pitched the tent. Got up at
4:30 the next morning, packed up my gear and hiked out with a pack full
of cameras & lenses and my tripod in pitch darkness. Shot some amazing
stuff throughout an incredible sunrise and then drove back home... where
the pro lab I took my slide film got a bad batch of bleach and ruined
the whole lot.
I determined right then and there to switch to digital even though I
couldn't afford it at the time.
(I did salvage a few shots from the ruined film: With a scanner,
Photoshop and lots of time.)
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