Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: Longing for Film On 3/10/2010 4:14 PM, Bob W wrote: I've longed believed the relative randomness of film grain distribution adds a certain organic feel that's missing from digital I'm longing for

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 4:14 PM, Bob W wrote: I've longed believed the relative randomness of film grain distribution adds a certain organic feel that's missing from digital I'm longing for an organic feel... You mean orgasmic, don't you? -- {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\font

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
2010/3/10 Doug Franklin : > On 2010-03-10 11:59, Bruce Dayton wrote: >> >> 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. > > You and me, both.  I've got hundreds of rolls arou

RE: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread Bob W
> I've longed believed the relative randomness of film grain > distribution adds a certain organic feel that's missing from digital I'm longing for an organic feel... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread Tom C
Sure I like not scanning... but when I do there always seems to be a pleasant surprise awaiting. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: > On 2010-03-10 11:59, Bruce Dayton wrote: >> >> Well I can vouch for that!  I have been scanning for the last week >> and I hate it!  Vuescan/Min

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-03-10 11:59, Bruce Dayton wrote: 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. You and me, both. I've got hundreds of rolls around here that need scanning. And doing

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread Cotty
On 10/3/10, Evan Hanson, discombobulated, unleashed: >I've longed believed the relative randomness of film grain >distribution adds a certain organic feel that's missing from digital >images. There's an app for that. >But maybe I'm just getting retro-grouchy in my middle >agedness. And there's

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "paul stenquist" Subject: Re: Longing for Film Grain is okay, but I much prefer the silken texture of a contact print made from an 8x10 negative. They almost look like -- well -- high resolution digital! (ducking and running:-). That's

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread paul stenquist
On Mar 10, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Evan Hanson wrote: > I've longed believed the relative randomness of film grain distribution adds > a certain organic feel that's missing from digital images.But maybe I'm > just getting retro-grouchy in my middle agedness. > Grain is okay, but I much prefer th

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread CheekyGeek
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Bob W wrote: > Film is dead... Also books, reading, and critical thinking. Darren Addy Kearney, NE -- 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 a

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread Evan Hanson
I've longed believed the relative randomness of film grain distribution adds a certain organic feel that's missing from digital images.But maybe I'm just getting retro-grouchy in my middle agedness. Evan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pd

RE: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread Bob W
Film is dead - it's called analogue now. > > I don't think there is anything wrong with longing for film. > It really doesn't matter to me if the longing is out of > nostalgia or because one feels a certain technical difference > that it produces. > [...]

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread CheekyGeek
I don't think there is anything wrong with longing for film. It really doesn't matter to me if the longing is out of nostalgia or because one feels a certain technical difference that it produces. A builder may love the buildings he produces, but that doesn't mean he doesn'

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I'm making my way through this huge repository of photos ... negatives made in the '50s and '60 by my grandfather, uncle, mother and father ... and they're captivating, delightful photographs. I can't wait to be done capturing them so that I can forget about film forever. What makes them special

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread Bruce Dayton
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 yea

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Darkrooms take up a lot of space, scanners not so much. (I miss b&W printing, I'm not sure I'm still good at it though). On 3/10/2010 9:24 AM, David Savage wrote: 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

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Sometimes I'll overlay a grain pattern, supposed to be TMAX but with a bit of play with the layer it can look kind of like Tri-X, on my B&W conversions. It's funny but it seems to bring out detail where it's been minimized by the digital process. Sometimes I miss film,. but don't feel like me

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread David Savage
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 wrote: > Over the past several years I've scanned and reviewed earlier scanned > images I've made.  There is

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
No but isn't this ironic... next thing you know you'll have a CD player with a built-in vinyl effect preamp... 2010/3/10 Tom C : > 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

Longing for Film

2010-03-09 Thread Tom C
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 a