One Reason Why Film Rules

[Sirius Glass]

My main point is though, that of photographer time. You take the images, drop it at the lab, and let the lab do the processing and proof prints. Then pick them up on the way to visit the family, with paper prints to go through, they pick the ones they like, and you drop the order back at the lab. Your time investment is minimal, the time you spent at the shoot and going to the lab. I guess, if your old school and use your digital the way a film guy uses film, you could do similar, drop the card at the lab for printing, and then pick up prints for the meeting. A lot of digital guys, who didn't come from a film background, end up shooting 2,000 frames, and if you give the family that kind of choice, it will take weeks to decide on the 60 for the package. That means the photographer has to cut it from 2,000 to 120 or so, and that's going to take hours. Hours they could spend on getting more gigs.

What is this "card" of which you speak? The 18% gray [grey] card? Business card? Ace of Spades?

 

[georg16nik]

What is this "card" of which you speak? The 18% gray [grey] card? Business card? Ace of Spades?

Tarot card

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

What is this "card" of which you speak? The 18% gray [grey] card? Business card? Ace of Spades?

A Red Card for blabbering on about digital...

 

[michaelbsc]

The memory card. I think you're purposely being obtuse.


But wogsters point is valid enough.

 

[wogster]

The memory card. I think you're purposely being obtuse.


But wogsters point is valid enough.

I was waiting to see if someone would catch on.... It's not always the tool, but often the craftsman who uses it, that makes the difference. Just because the media is cheaper, doesn't mean you need to shoot more.

I once went on a shooting hike with a friend, we were dug into the shore of a lake off a trail, I had a 200mm lens (35mm) and a doubler on so about 400mm of lens power,
on the big old Manfrotto, observing some birds on a log, almost on the other side, probably 200m away. I got one shot, when a group of people came along the trail, all with fancy Nikon DSLR's, the ones with massive zooms attached, talking at a volume that would drown out a space shuttle at liftoff thrust. They proceeded to mercilessly machine gun the scene. I would think it a safe bet, that the only one of the 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 or so images taken during that particular minute that wasn't crap was the one I got off before they arrived Of course afterwards, we packed up and went back to the trail head, it wasn't worth stopping, because there was no wild life for about 10km on either side, because the loud talking had moved it all to another part of the park. We saw their tour bus head left, we followed it to the next trail, they stopped, we didn't.

Funny thing is, even with a DSLR, I don't really shoot more, if I can get what I want in one shot, why take 10 or 100 or 1,000?

 

[markbarendt]

Some of us are just avoiding the bait Wogster.

 

[Sirius Glass]

The memory card. I think you're purposely being obtuse.

Obtuse?? There are no acute angles on the memory cards of which you speak. By the way, my girl friend thinks that I am cute, and frankly compared to you I would rather listen to her.

I keep my memories in my brain, in negatives, in slides and on wet chemisty bases prints. Who needs them on playing cards?

But wogsters point is valid enough.

Not for me.

 

[JBrunner]

And, of course, the borderline thread eventually disintegrates.

 

[Sirius Glass]

And, of course, the borderline thread eventually disintegrates.

Even the deleted thread is no longer with us.

 

[michaelbsc]

...By the way, my girl friend thinks that I am cute, and frankly compared to you I would rather listen to her.