E6 Builds Character

[dreamingartemis]

Yes, it always seems to come down to a triumph for convenience over quality.



Engineers are highly paid? When did that happen?


Steve.

When you're an engineer manager

 

[Steve Smith]

Not when I was an engineer either I can assure you Steve.

And not now. My pay is about the national average.


Steve.

 

[sandermarijn]

Sometimes I think a copy photo taken off the projection screen is a better representation of a slide than a direct scan.

That's exactly what I did once with Velvia. Worked miles better than my flatbed or the Minolta Scan Dual III.

Pardon the hybrid sidestep :eek:.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

No bracketing when you used Ektachrome for Photojournalism.

Bracketing is a substitute for proper metering in most cases.

It's interesting to see what passes for skill, experience, and quality at LL. This guy used "thousands" of roll of film over a whopping 5 years, yet kept only 4 or 5 frames from each roll. This means he trashed at least 62,000 frames, keeping at least 8,000. The one frame he posted is, well, crap. Either it is crap on the film or the scan is crap, but it's crap. Looks like he is well suited to the shotgun approach with digitography.

 

[Klainmeister]

That link with the rock cracks me up! WTF?!

Funny, I was taught photography at 15 on E-6 because the person teaching me wanted me to learn proper exposure with my tools. After that, I felt that BW negatives are quite easy. Actually, just dropped off a bunch of forgotten rolls of Velvia this morning. The lab had a lot film being developed, it appeared, which was heartening.

 

[benjiboy]

Shooting slide film teaches you not only to get the exposure right, but to frame and compose the picture correctly, because it has to be right first time there are no second chances which over the years for me I feel has proved to be very good discipline and training for all my photography.

 

[Chris Nielsen]

I stopped looking at LL years ago when they insisted that a 3MP digital camera was far superior to 35mm Provia. Even the digital shooters of the world today realize how totally stupid that makes LL sound but they stick by it to this day, even going one further recently with an utterly retarded 8x10 vs 80mp digital back test. I grind my teeth whenever someone on the net quotes LL as proof of anything

 

[clayne]

Seems like slide film worked out great for McCurry. Oh that's right, he's an actual photographer and not a Guy With a Camera.