Cheering!!!!
Charles
Walt Wayman wrote:
>As some of you may know from a couple of my recent posts, I'm buying Mamiya
>RB67 gear like a drunken sailor. The reason: I'm not yet ready for digital,
>and digital's sure as hell not ready for me. I shoot only for my own pleasure
>and don't give a rat's ass what anybody else thinks of my photos.
>
>I've shot film for so long that I almost always know just about exactly what
>I'm going to end up with when I trip the shutter release, so verification of
>my expertise (or dumb luck), whether it comes immediately, the next day, or
>two weeks later, is not a real issue. I kind of enjoy the suspense. Instant
>gratification leaves something to be desired, and it may be that only old
>retro farts like me remember that. I'm rarely in a hurry for anything except
>the cocktail hour and football season.
>
>Anyway, I thought the few ancient and stubborn coots like me who haven't yet
>succumbed to digititis and technomania, and who may be feeling left out by all
>the pixel blather, might get a bit of a morale boost from this quote from an
>article by Jim McGee, a real pro, recently in Vivid Light:
>
>"(W)hen I'm shooting for the magazine where deadlines and workflow are most
>important, I shoot digital. When I'm shooting for myself or for my personal
>image archive, I shoot film, either slides or negatives as the occasion
>dictates. In some cases I've shot both - so I'd have the digital images for
>the magazine and the slides for my personal use.
>
>"It turns out I'm not the only one who's come to this conclusion. Unreadable
>CDs and the cost of moving digital images every eighteen months to new
>hardware have now burned many photographers. The result? Fuji reports that
>while consumer film sales continue to decline, professional film sales have
>increased dramatically in the past year. Professional photographers are
>expressing their concerns with their wallets. As a result, Fuji is focusing
>heavily on creating a workflow based around shooting film, scanning and post
>processing."
>
>Vivid Light can be found at: http://www.vividlight.com
>
>Walt, smug as a bug in a rug with OMs, Graphics, Mamiyas and a fridge full of
>film
>
>--
>"Anything more than 500 yards from
>the car just isn't photogenic." --
>
>
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