Last evening I scanned another roll of XP2 Super I put through the Leica M4-2. Took the whole roll with the M-Rokkor 40mm f/2 lens.
Film and digital are two entirely different recording mediums. A 100% manual camera with no in-camera meter is different in use than any camera with a built-in meter, and certainly different from any camera that has auto-exposure. Never mind auto-focus...! Scanning this roll was easy ... my exposures are back on point, I didn't need to change the scanner settings off the defaults I set up even once. Focus is back on point. Because of that, scanning 36 exposures took only an hour and forty-five minutes. That's not bad, about as fast as the Coolscan V can go with strips of four. But what's exciting is that I'm beginning to see in this medium again. The tools are bone simple, the medium is heavily constrained and has little latitude: it's all about the image. I'll do whatever it takes to bring my digital capture work into the same mental space. It's the good space. This is where I want to be. :-) onwards! G -- 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.
