Personally, I find the whole process of (B&W) photography enjoyable. It does not get in my way. I use the Graphic for fun, and processing the film, making prints, etc. is an important part of it to me. From what I read here most of you do not like photography. It is a bore, and a bother. I sometimes wonder, why not hire someone to take pictures for you?
Digital seems to be the P&S dream, no need to feel guilty any longer about all those prints you used to just throw away, just delete them. A DSLR and landscapes? Sorry, I can not help sneering.
I just stuck all the 4x6 prints that were laying about, at least the ones I found so far, into some albums. Doing that, I saw that the real reason for me to want to go digital is the lousy printing the mini-labs do. About 1/2 of those snapshot prints were unacceptable. How they can get good prints from some shots on a roll, and bad ones from others when they were all shot in the same light at the same settings is beyond my understanding. Automatic machinery run by idiots is my best guess. About 10% are bad because I was not paying attention to what I was doing. Suffering from autocamitus, I guess.
Even if someone gave me a DSLR, it would just replace the 35mm for snapshots, I would still be shooting the Graphic for serious (fun) photography.
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Rob Studdert wrote:
On 4 Feb 2004 at 14:11, Robert Gonzalez wrote:
I agree wholeheartedly. And I'm still trying to get used to the idea that I can take as many pictures as I want and not have to worry about the cost. But when I remember, I shoot, check exposure, look at the composition, re-compose, re-shoot, experiment, etc. Then I get very quick feedback that would have taken a week previously. Its a marvelous teaching tool.
I've enjoyed the discourse on the matter, however it seems peculiar that the listers arguing so vehemently against digital image capture don't own DSLRs (digi-p&s don't count). :-)
Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
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