Film Again
After about two years and a half doing 99.9% of my photos with digital cameras, I am left with mixed feelings. Mostly, it is great. I did get what I missed when I was using solely the Rollei SL66 and later the Arca-Swiss 6×9. However, as I should have foreseen, I also lost a few things:
- Ability to cope with specular highlight in an aesthetic way
- Dynamic range
- Production of a tangible, durable object
- The large viewfinder
- Flexible depth of field management
I won’t go back to everything this or that. But I started last summer to use my Leica again, with great joy and nice results too.
For Christmas I received a beautiful present: an old Mamiya RZ67 with a standard 110mm lens. It is big, heavy, slower to use than the E-3, but the large negatives are a pleasure to work with. And now that I found again a proper development procedure, I get instant quasi-HDR on every negative.
Stephane :: Jan.06.2009 :: Film, Gear, Scanning :: 1 Comment »
