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Storage of photos whilst travelling?
"Jeremy Henderson" wrote
| Not to mention the eternal worry for the inexperienced photographer | of not being sure they loaded the film properly (or at all :-). I admit to being a complete failure with photographic equipment; I have never managed to get a decent photo out of a film camera, even with the nice lady in the shop putting the film in and taking it out for me. Digital is like a computer and I can work them! The increased depth of focus with a digital is an advantage, but I find they don't work well on moving targets. Owain |
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Mxsmanic wrote:
Jeremy Henderson writes: You don't need a digital SLR to have exposure control. A much cheaper model will provide all the control you need. If you wade through ten menus to obtain it, yes. That is difficult to do quickly. On my Canon S-30 there is a button shaped like a plus sign. Move it up or down to change the aperture, left or right to change the exposure. It's as easy as you could ask for. No menus involved. miguel -- See the world from your web browser: http://travel.u.nu/ |
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Following up to Jeremy Henderson
The danger I'm talking about is that you didn't expose the scene correctly at the time - something that is easily checked with a digital, and impossible with film. this is an advantage of digital, for me it doesn't outweigh the lack of quality and the storage problem. When full frame SLR type bodies are available at an affordable price I will consider digital. For now, scanned slides give me a non magnetic technology based back up and a quality image. -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso UK walking & photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Spain,cuisines and walking "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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Following up to Mxsmanic
Exactly my point - if you buy prepaid film you don't have the option of processing it abroad without paying extra. Apart from Kodachrome, who ever buys prepaid film these days? I do, all the time. (Fuji velvia). You don't have to, but I prefer to use the Fuji lab. -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso UK walking & photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Spain,cuisines and walking "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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Following up to Mxsmanic
I've never seen prepaid Fujichrome. Where have you encountered it? It is optional, you buy the E6 mailers if you want them. Agfa also ran a fast turn around "pro" service till recently. -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso UK walking & photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Spain,cuisines and walking "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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Reid writes:
It is optional, you buy the E6 mailers if you want them. Agfa also ran a fast turn around "pro" service till recently. I'm fortunate in that I can get E-6 135 or 120 developed in two hours flat, seven days a week. I never use mailers for anything except Kodachrome. Even Kodachrome used to have 24-hour turnaround, although now it is 48-hour turnaround, and only for the "pro" versions of the film (for everyone else, it's 7-10 days). I don't shoot much Kodachrome, though. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Following up to Mxsmanic
It is optional, you buy the E6 mailers if you want them. Agfa also ran a fast turn around "pro" service till recently. I'm fortunate in that I can get E-6 135 or 120 developed in two hours flat, seven days a week. Yes, I can too, but the people who do it tend to be in central London, so I only do that if the shots may be valuable. -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso UK walking & photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Spain,cuisines and walking "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 01:44:07 +0100, Mxsmanic
wrote: Jeremy Henderson writes: The danger I'm talking about is that you didn't expose the scene correctly at the time - something that is easily checked with a digital, and impossible with film. If you have even a modicum of familiarity with the principles of photography and a decent camera, you'll get correct exposure. Additionally, some consumer films, such as Kodak Max, have such a wide latitude that you can expose almost randomly and still get usable images. Furthermore, for a typical traveler's budget, you can get a better film camera than digital camera. The penultimate time I came back from a longish trip, the cost of developing the films would have funded a damn fine digital camera. So the last time, I went out an bought one. (And that's not allowing for the the cost of processing pictures that turned out to be unusuable) As far as cost is concerned its a total no brainer. Brian |
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bigbrian writes:
The penultimate time I came back from a longish trip, the cost of developing the films would have funded a damn fine digital camera. Typically you must shoot several thousand pictures to amortize the cost of a digital camera. Most people shoot only about one or two dozen photos _per year_. They shoot more on vacation, but often surprisingly few even then. Most people on vacation, unless they are truly serious photographers, take pictures only when they have nothing else to do. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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