If you ... never need to pull lost detail out of shadows and highlights, it
does save time in >both processing and transferring files.
Sounds like shooting slide film.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Colen" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Scott Bourne's rant on the good old days...
On Apr 17, 2013, at 7:45 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Marnie,
That's what I thought too!!! I saw Larry shoot in Chicago at the PDML
exhibition,
and shoot and shoot and shoot. There wasn't a composition or
aspect he didn't try to capture. He had to recharge his spare
batteries at lunch.
Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Excuse me, this is LARRY'S post?!!?!!? As in Larry who shoots, well, a
LOT
of frames?
I'm not even having wine at the moment. Maybe I should.
Marnie aka Doe ;-)
I shot film for about 35 years. I grew up making every shot count. It is
a tool that has been in my toolbox since before my Bar Mitzvah. The last
time I shot any significant amount of film was at Burning Man in 2010, and
I shot a profligate seven or eight rolls of film, as well as a couple
thousand frames of digital. That worked out to something like thirty
frames of film a day.
When I go to someplace like Chicago, with modern photographic gear, being
parsimonious with my shots is false economy. I've been there twice. The
first time was for a dance event and I didn't have much time to see and
photograph the city. When you count vacation time used, airfare, meals,
car rental, my trip probably cost me $1,000. If I shot 2000 frames, call
it 50 gig, that's something like $10 worth of hard drive. Less than I
spent on a typical lunch on the trip. Some of my best shots from the
trip were total WTF shots, trying things that had such a low probability
of success that if I were shooting film, I doubt I would have wasted the
money.
About the only tool that I advise against people using, in most cases, is
shooting exclusively JPEG, and I will grant that there are even times when
that is applicable. If you never miss a shot, and never need to pull lost
detail out of shadows and highlights, it does save time in both processing
and transferring files.
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Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
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