Re: 10th anniversary
- From: "Tzortzakakis Dimitrios" <noone@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:40:41 +0200
? "Gary Edstrom" <GEdstrom@xxxxxxxxxxx> ?????? ??? ??????
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On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:47:32 -0500, tony cooperNot to mention the wet darkroom, which I am very, very glad to leave behind.
<tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:52:39 -0800, Gary Edstrom
<GEdstrom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, I am approaching the 10th anniversary of my first digital camera
purchase in 1999. During that time, I have taken 40,314 digital images.
For comparison, in the 25 years prior to that, I only took 3,497
pictures with my 35mm Nikon F-2 that I purchased in 1974 while I was
stationed on Midway Island.
The end of my film days came in 2001 after a return visit to Midway
Island. I took both my 35mm Nikon, and my 4MP Olympus E-10 along on the
trip. Although the Olympus was only 4MP, I liked the results just as
well as the results from the Nikon. It is RARE that I want enlargements
bigger than 8x10 anyway. That was the last time I ever shot a frame of
film.
The advantages of digital are many.
Today, Saturday, I went to an event where I thought I could get some
good shots. I shot 97 images. I downloaded* them tonight and
reviewed them. While I was able to get three decent shots out of the
group - which is about what my goal was - I could return to the same
event tomorrow and re-shoot based on what I saw tonight.
Back in the film days, I would have shot less and had to wait a few
days to see the results. The weekend event would be over.
In this case, it was an event with crowds of people and a great deal
of clutter in the scene. Most of the 97 shots were from moving around
a bit to minimize the background and clutter problems.
Yes, there are many things you can do with a digital camera that you
would probably never attempt with a film camera due to the cost of film
and processing.
One thing that I have always been disappointed about is how few pictures
there are of the back woods cabin in the U.P. of Michigan that my father
grew up in. We only have 2-3 pictures that show the cabin at all, and
they were all taken from the same side of the place from the distance.
There is only 1 interior shot which really doesn't show much of the
cabin itself. It is of my father sitting at his short-wave radio back
in 1922. The only memory I have of the interior of the place is from a
1956 trip when I was only 8 years old.
I was determined that the same thing was not going to happen with my
parent's house that my mother lived in for 42 years until she died 2
years ago. I went WAY overboard in the opposite direction. I have over
1,500 pictures of the place taken inside and out. Few of these will
ever be printed, but that was not the point. I have pictures taken from
every corner of every room, plus close ups of every piece of furniture
and every other significant object. The exterior of the house and yard
has been shot from every conceivable angle. I doubt that there is much
of anything of significance either inside or out that doesn't appear in
at least one picture. It will be a good visual record of what we had in
the place.
When my mother died, I became the keeper of the old pictures, documents,
letters, and other papers. I told my sister that she could have all of
the furniture and nick-knacks she wanted. I just don't have room for
them here in my condo. She moved a bunch of stuff to her place in
Oklahoma and packed them into a couple of self-storage units where they
will probably never see the light of day again.
While printing a (good) jpeg with a photo printer is absolutely foolproof
(My canon Pixma has exif print) in the film days you needed a whole
afternoon and evening preparing the hot baths to keep temperature constant,
remembering to take the photo paper out of the fridge, and then spend all
the evening doing proofs and try to find the colour cast and reading the
theory from the book how to correct it. All I've got from that era are a
couple RA-4 8 X1 0" s and a cibachrome print that shows me on a tree in
front of snow-capped mountains here, in Crete. Not to mention the
frustration of trying to print correctly form FP-4 or tmax 100, with so many
variables, exposure, filter (multigrade papers) developing time.... While I
have printed, literally, thousands of photos on my Canon, and the only thing
to worry is ink cost which is still negligible to the cost and effort of a
wet colour darkroom.
Just my 0.02 euros....
--
Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
major in electrical engineering
mechanized infantry reservist
hordad AT otenet DOT gr
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