This is akin to trying to explain the true value of an expensive high end audio system to someone who has zero interest in the hobby, and would never want spend the kind of money required to own it.
The TSA really could care less.Does that mean that it's safe for the film to put it into checked baggage, or that the TSA has no problem with you destroying your film that way?
For me, slides were something for very boring family parties, with awkward holiday snaps. I would love to understand why some people cherish that workflow so much.
Does that mean that it's safe for the film to put it into checked baggage, or that the TSA has no problem with you destroying your film that way?
You would be surprised to learn how few photographers have actually produced an image on slide film, let alone viewed it directly.
What is high end about reversal film?
For me, slides were something for very boring family parties, with awkward holiday snaps. I would love to understand why some people cherish that workflow so much.
I read it to mean they think developed film is OK to put in checked bags. They say that all undeveloped film should stay with you when you go through the checkpoints.
But my OP was not really concerned with technical image quality, but more with the rationale of shooting colour negative film in an old camera when you are then going to scan the film; my question was, why not just go digital all the way?
I think the responses in the first few pages demonstrate that for a great many people, the final image and its appearance is not all that matters - unless perhaps you include in 'appearance' intangible aspects that result in something like "appearance to the mind's eye"...I'm referring to arguments some put forth about the desire to handle a particular kind of camera, or the fun they have handling film. While all these factors of course somehow affect the end result, some of them do so very indirectly and often with ambiguous effects on technical image quality.In my opinion, it is the appearance of the final image ... in the eyes of the person who made it ... that is the only thing that matters, and inevitably that means two people looking at two images, one taken with film and the other with a CMOS detector, will disagree as to which one is "better".
Slide film. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. But for me, a digital capture can easily outperform slide film, with less less hussle.
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