My favourite film camera is still the OM4 (because I don't have a
Ti), followed by the Bronica RF645.
I will turn a digital image to mono only if it goes with little
effort, i.e. not too much manipulation. Fred Miranda's plugin does a
pretty good job of reducing the effort.
The same goes for digital files for keeping: if it requires only a
little fiddling with levels I will keep it. More than that and my
photos are probably not worth the effort ;-) I agree with you about
the satisfaction of seeing the quality when it all works out.
Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 31 May 2006, at 15:01, AG Schnozz wrote:
> The OM-2S is still my "first-love" camera. Combined with my
> outstanding set of Zuikos, it produces an unique look that just
> isn't repeatable with any other technology. But will I shoot B&W
> or will I continue to use it with the odd roll of Velvia? There
> are some types of shots where 35mm Velvia still outperforms
> anything I've got in digital and purchasing a new uberdigital
> right now is out of the question.
>
> Shooting film-based B&W has one major advantage over digital.
> Film seems to respond to color filtering in a smoother, more
> linear manner. Digital manipulation of the color response curves
> tends to introduce noise and the responses are just not quite
> right. If I've got a true film-based B&W work print to compare
> to, I can usually get the digital version to match, but not
> without extensive bumps, boosts and other wierd scratchings.
>
> When "resolution" and "noise" is the only things people use to
> determine how "great digital is", they are overlooking the
> nuances of how film modifies the scene to provide different
> interpretations. We can post-process to get back some of this,
> but there is something inherently good about having your
> first-level of image capture to be as close to final-result as
> possible.
>
> AG
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