Do you think you would have made the cut?
Print film is the easiest, IMO. Exposure fundamentals are the same as digital, but print film has a huge exposure latitude. Digital and slides require more accuracy. I think anyone who can operate in manual with digital could handle film just fine. Slide shooters will do good with digital. The biggest problem is for print film shooters who have been unaware for years that their exposure is often off a stop or so. Digital and slides will reveal this. I don't mention working in the darkroom because 99%+ of film photographers ever didn't spend significant time in a darkroom. A greater percentage of digital photographers are doing their own processing than film photographers.
KCook wrote:
I was not able to produce the same level of work with film as I can now with digital. However, that doesn't matter, as nobody else matched the digital level either. What really dismays me about this digital era is the worship of premium gear. If your lens doesn't have a huge price tag, then your work today must automatically be sub-standard. Gear lust has always been with us, from the very start. But now it's gone completely nutz.Do you feel you would have been able to produce the same level of work that you do today back in the film days?
Kelly Cook
same here I wish it was so simpleHenry Peach wrote:
KCook wrote: If your lens doesn't have a huge price tag, then your work today must automatically be sub-standard.
Use this as a flag to indicate people not worth dealing with. No one worth listening to believes this is true.
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Kelly
Yeah I always love that. I left my response to it as well. You as an ex-optics man know that photographic optics on either end of the scale are not as precise as astronomical optics at any level. They are good but not even at the level that the newer sensors will be requiring. Just look at Pentax and the 645D, even their older lenses that were considered top end degraded the images that the sensor was capable of, so they were force to make even higher quality lenses optimized for the sensor, that are quite expensive I might add. Even the top end lenses are not utilizing the full resolution of the newest technology.KCook wrote:
I wish it was so simpleHenry Peach wrote:
KCook wrote: If your lens doesn't have a huge price tag, then your work today must automatically be sub-standard.
Use this as a flag to indicate people not worth dealing with. No one worth listening to believes this is true.
www.photographytalk.com/forum/photograph...ve-and-better-lenses
Kelly
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