On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 06:49:08AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:02 AM, Jens wrote: > >> Sometimes I want the film-days back.... Those where the days, ehh? > > Nope, not for me. > > Godfrey
Nor me. The first problem was finding somewhere that would develop your film without scratching it. And when they did scratch it they would insist that it must have been your camera, not their processing (although it was a bit hard to explain how, in that case, the camera had managed to scratch a partially-exposed roll of film while it was still rolled up in the film cassete). As for printing - good luck on finding somewhere that got the colours anywhere close to right. Film scanning was hard to find, initially, and either terrible quality or seriously expensive. I did my own, but that was time-consuming. And, of course, there was all the work of getting rid of the inevitable dust spots. While the good scanners came close to getting the colours right on negative film, there was always some adjustment necessary, even if you were within the gamut of both the film and the scanner (which were not necessarily close). But at least if you scanned it yourself you could send a profiled image file to the pro labs, and get back a pretty good print. Eventually I switched to pretty much only shooting Provia 100F where possible; it scanned well, and had a pretty realistic colour palette. But finding reliable E6 processing got harder and harder; the big pro labs closed down, and even a little lab I found closed when the owner moved to Carmel to live with his amorata. Film only saves time if you stay out of the digital realm entirely, and are prepared to pay somebody handsomely to realise your images. The minute you decide you want the control of your images that you get with a digital darkroom you're going to spend just as much time with an image editor, even before you add in the time for scanning and dust removal. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
