I like shooting film (B&W, in the LX with the FA 31mm f1.8), I even like developing it.
It's the scanning of film that I hate with a fundamentalist passion. On 10 March 2010 11:11, Tom C <caka...@gmail.com> 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 > 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. > -- 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.
