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Subject: Re: [OM] Any weird OM film gear out there for sale
From: Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:10:10 +0100
Same here, excpet for the last paragraph :-) That’s why a GF-something is in my 
future ;-)

Amities

Philippe



> Le 28 janv. 2019 à 19:34, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
> On 1/28/2019 8:35 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>>> From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> 
>>> ...a back-of-the-napkin calculation is that I would have spent
>>> somewhere north of $25,000 on film and processing if I did.
>> Really? REALLY?
>> 
>> One big difference between film and digital is that with film, you try to 
>> make every shot count, whereas with digital, you just fire away and sort it 
>> out later.
>> 
>> In looking over my archive, I see that I literally took 1/10th as many 
>> photos when it was film.
> 
> And yet, for me, because I can't speak for anyone else, my keeper rate went 
> UP, at least in my first years of digital. Yup, I took many more shots, AND I 
> found a higher percentage of them pleasing. I had the feeling that my 
> photography had improved a lot with digital. So I actually looked through my 
> late film photos (scanned) and early digital photos, and confirmed this 
> possibly counter intuitive situation to be true.
> 
> One of my imagined reasons for this is the constraint of film and processing 
> cost. Always thinking about that in the background means I hardly ever took 
> "risky" shots, alternative angles, unusual subjects, and so on. With digital, 
> the constraint vanished, and I felt free to experiment. (Also, no occasional 
> 38 shots missed to mis-loaded film. ;-) )
> 
> Another possible reason is the instant feedback of the LCD and the quick 
> feedback of viewing on the computer within hours, instead of weeks, or more. 
> Combined with EXIF data, this feedback loop may have improved my 
> understanding of how what I do, and set, affects results. That I was terrible 
> at taking notes while shooting film meant I seldom actually knew what 
> settings I had used.
> 
> Yet another contributing factor may have been sensor size. My first digicam 
> was a P&S with 1/2.7" sensor, and the second was APS-C. As I am almost always 
> looking for more DoF, the move from FF to smaller sensors may have helped get 
> what I wanted.
> 
> Alternate Moose
> 
> 
> -- 
> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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