On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:07:38AM -0500, Tom C scripsit: [snip] > Nevertheless, with the advent of digital capture, it seems or feels as > if the process is far more complicated. Maybe my RAW image is the > equivalent of my transparency, but it just does not feel the same. It > seemed that I could look at a transparency and say "Wow, that looks > exactly like what I saw" or "Wow, I messed that one up". With digital > I feel much more insecure. Was it me, the camera, the software, the > hardware?
I deal with this one as "it was me"; that's the one I can generally do something about. > It seems the almost instant gratification of digital capture and the > speediness of results has been eclipsed by the, OMG factor, and 'what > do I have to do to adjust this image?'. Time saved by instant results > is erased by time spent post-capture processing. > > Does it seem that way to others as well? Well, I've never shot film. So I really don't get the emotional transition. I find image adjustment to be straightforward; I don't have to do many, and if I did have to do many I have batch tools available. (Do one carefully by hand, do the rest to those settings.) I'm also very thankful I don't have to learn a pile of darkroom chemistry. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
