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From: "Mark Roberts"
Subject: Re: Film-days
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.)
I suspect that part of my frustration with digital is that since I was my
own lab, I didn't have to deal with the problems that seem so common within
the lab industry.
I liked that I didn't have to worry about my pictures going away because of
all the things that can go awry with digital file storage. I like that I can
put my negatives into sleeves and forget about them, knowing that they will
still be there, ready and waiting for me whenever I want to print them
without my having to babysit them through whatever iteration of temporary
digital storage that the computer industry decides is it's flavour of the
week.
As I just discovered recently, storing digital files on CDs for more than a
few years can be pretty iffy, even when using top end equipment and media.
William Robb
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