Well I can vouch for that! I have been scanning for the last week and I hate it! Vuescan/Minolta Scan Dual II and batch mode helps some, but it is still painful.
At this point, I have zero interest in film. I look back on my stuff and find that I have improved my skills quite a bit over the years and the biggest leap was when I went to digital and could learn in real time (shoot and look) and post processing very quickly. Also, cost of learning was relatively low (shoot as many frames as you want) so that also helped me to learn quicker. I still have some good keepers on film, but the dreamy nostalgia is just not there for me. Of course, I have the same feeling towards vinyl records vs CD's. Different strokes for different folks. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 6:24:21 AM, you wrote: DS> I like shooting film (B&W, in the LX with the FA 31mm f1.8), I even DS> like developing it. DS> It's the scanning of film that I hate with a fundamentalist passion. DS> On 10 March 2010 11:11, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: >> Over the past several years I've scanned and reviewed earlier scanned >> images I've made. There is something about them that's undefinable >> and draws me to them over my digitally captured images. >> >> I can't say what it is. Possibly a sense of being closer to reality, >> in the same vein that I recognize an analog record as sounding better >> than a CD? Possibly the smoothness of film across the dynamic range? >> I don't know. >> >> Unless I were able to take side-by-side film vs. digitally captured >> images in the same format, using the same lens, it would be difficult >> to make an objective comparison. >> >> So subjectively, as far as image quality is concerned, I'm tending to >> lean towards film... though it's obviously a dead end. >> >> I hope to scan quite a number of film images captured from the past >> ten years and subjectively, of course, compare them to my overall >> sense of digitally captured images. >> >> Partially responsible for making me think along these lines, is a >> recent advert from Alien Skin Exposure 2, a film simulator plug-in. >> >> http://tinyurl.com/yz2zybg >> >> Does anyone have any experience with it? >> >> Tom C. >> >> -- >> 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. >> -- 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.
