ken_dunn1

I want to save the raw HD footage for later, but I want to edit the footage in DV now, so I guess that is not a problem. Didnt expect any advantage other than having it for future use. Thanks

I too am interested in purchasing one of the machines, and the HDV for future more than current use. Can you capture in HD and then laod it as DVD? I am new to editing and would hate to jump right into HD, but 2-3 years from now maybe, and I would maybe need to go back to my footage.

Another photo.netter and I just got back from the FLA GA state line, just starting to happen. Here in KY its still 2 weeks away before it gets good. I would imagine Philly is at least that far away.

yeah, you just need to set the levels to get them to look the way you want. Shooting and editing in RAW is really nice if you have Photoshop CS (I think that camera will shoot in RAW). Bring the shadows up and the brightness as well adding lots of contrast. Remember that you have to pretty much shoot in bad light to get the right effect, thats one of the joys for me of doing it. When the light sours for Velvia, its getting right for IR. I keep an old Minolta Dimage 7 just for this. Good luck and have fun.<div></div>

I don't think that anyone is questioning digital as art really. I think it is as 99% of the people out there do I am sure. I had another thought, if two people set out to paint their masterpiece (lets just suppose you could do that, lol), one painted on canvas and one on a wacom tablet on a mac, they were both masterpieces in every sense of the word as far as art, which would would draw more emotion?

"As for me, I am very pleased to rid my life of everything related to film. I like no longer storing film in my freezer. I like no longer taking an ice chest with me on photo-adventures to be sure my film doesn't get baked. "

 

Why is its such a big deal to store it in the freezer? Dosent take up much space at all, and I have never had any go bad from the heat on a trip, and unless you order a few years supply of film, the fridge is just fine

 

"I like getting through airport security without trying to convince TSA workers to hand- inspect my film instead of running it through x-rays."

 

That has never been a problem, and sometimes they see it in the plastic bag and offer before I can ask, and I would say there is magnetic risks all around that are just as dangerious for cards

 

"I like never having a scratch from a grain of sand across my entire roll of film."

 

Thats never happened to me in 1000's of rolls

 

"I like not wasting time threading my film onto the sprockets when I reload."

 

It takes about as much time to do that as to change a lens.

 

"I like not paying 30-50 cents per shot for good film and good developing."

 

I will give you that

 

"I like not labeling which rolls of film are to be pushed/pulled (and not paying extra for the service). I like not waiting to get my developed pictures back. I like not having to go to a photo lab to drop my film off, and not having to go back to pick my film up."

Well, I have a JObo ALT 1000 processor, so that don't really apply to me

 

"I like being able to store hundreds of pictures on a compact flash card about the size and weight of a silver dollar a lot more than storing hundreds of pictures on a half-dozen or more rolls of film."

Can you say all your eggs in one basket?

 

" I like not having to squint through a loupe over a light table to properly see my picture."

 

I find it much easier and enjoyable to look at images on a light table, and so do most publishers. One of the magazines I worked for sent out a news letter about a year ago asking if we would really give up a light table review of our images for the ease of digital.

 

"I like fitting many thousands of stored pictures on a (physically) small hard disk much better than storing many thousands of pictures in slide sheets in a filing cabinet."

 

I find it a pleasure to go back looking for a slide and a chore to search out the digital file.

 

"I like taking a single exposure of my prized shot, instead of making multiple in- camera duplicates. I like sending my originals to publishers without worrying about their safety in the mail, or whether they will be handled gently by photo- editors, printers, etc. I like not having to wait months-to-years to get my originals back from publishers before I can submit them again. I like having my originals nice and safe in multiple locations simlutaneously."

 

If you shoot in camera dupes as I do, then you have the same benefits, right?

 

"I like changing ISO without changing film in my camera. I like only having to clean my originals once, then never having them get dusty or scratched."

 

I carry 2 backs usually, but the speed that you can get from digital is really nice, but who really needs that in nature? I shoot Velvia and 90% of the time the speed is fine. When I need more, I can pop some VS in there. You can always scan your original and clean it and save it for yourself, and the rest of the time the publisher cleans it, right?

 

Now, this is one pro for film that I am going to post. Digital never would have pulled off this exposure (close to an hour), it was my favoite shot of last year.<div></div>

I really like the responses that this is getting. I do have to agree with Gloria on the issue of owning an original piece of art. I think its kind of like owning an original painting. Lets face it, most any talented artist can reproduce the old masters works and it takes an expert to tell the difference. Are they worth much? Nope. I get the same feeling with a chrome. Sure you can scan it, print it, publish it, manipulate it to your sick of looking at it, but the original is still the chrome. With digital there is no original so to speak. You can make a million exact copies and no one will know where it actually started. It?s just cold. If someone took a picture of Ansel Adams ?Moonrise Over Half Dome? and printed it with amazing detail as good as the original, would anyone really care? I know its not exactly the same, with digital you are creating the work, but it just has that kind of feel to it, there is just no emotional attachment for me. I just don?t really get too excited about my digital pictures, its like my job, with film it?s still my art. Don?t really care to even go back and look at what I shot digitally, its just work for hire. Part of it may be that you tend to shoot so much with digital. Its nothing to crank out 500 pictures in a couple of hours at a wedding because hey, you can! I have shot 50,000 digital pictures in the past year, and before I went digital I may have shot 1/10th of that in a good year.

OK, I have pretty good digital equipment that I use a lot. I do a

little bit of everything from billboards for hospitals to weddings

to books on how to do crafts, and most of this I shoot with

digital. I have a 1D, 20D, 17-40, 70-200, 400, and a 100 2.0 all

being L lenses except for the 100. My love is nature photography,

however. But here is the thing, I don't like to shoot digital

nature. And its not that the prints look better, they really are

pretty close, its just I like having that little piece of 645 real

estate with an image on it. Digital pictures just don't have any

feeling to them, its like they only exist in a cold cyber world

somewhere. I know you say you can print them, but its just not the

same. I was just getting ready to order several hundred dollars

worth of film when I just asked myself "why am I doing this"? Does

anyone else have this unhealthy emotional attachment to fim? Is

there any hope for me?

Anyone out there use the RRS BH-25? Looks like a nice set up for the price/weight?

I heard that they are expecting the best wildflowers in a generation

in Western AZ this spring. I booked a flight out there the end of

Feb into March thinking about doing up moslty Organ Pipe. This

sound like a good plan, any other spots that are a must do for

wildflowers?

I go there pretty regular, the best time is in early June, around the 7th or so. I ususally pick up the Appalachian Trail at Grayson and head back a few miles and camp. Depending on how the Rhodos are coming along it varies between good and stunning (those flowers are kinda hard to predict and when they are good they are something, and during a bad year there won't be any). Damascus is at the bottom of the mountain and a really cool little town. They have a trail festival there in May I think. There is a great family bicycling trail there as well called the Virginia Creeper. Has this answered the questions you had? Kinda vauge.

I have been working on a tourism project that started out mostly as

nature which I am comfortable doing, but has evolved into more

commercial type photography showing people shopping, etc. I would

like to have a book that shows some new ideas in posing for that

type of photography and was wondering what you folks would recommend?

Balck and white is one of the areas that I hear that RIPs really help, although I am pretty happy with the 130 black and white, I am sure it could be better. Funny how we can be satisfied with something, but if we here there is a better way (even without seeing it) we have to have it, lol.

I am not really sure what RIP's are and if I need one. I hear they

do help in quaility, but how? Mmore accurate? I have as designjet

130 and thinking about getting one if it will help. Any suggestions?

I have the HP 130 and love it. Paper handling is sometimes a pain, but the output is great. I am not sure about the RIP, I don't know if you need it or not. I am thinking aobut buying it, but not sure why, lol. I am pretty hard to please, so you can keep that in mind. I paid for the printer first job I did. Feel free to email me if you have a specific question.

Kenny

www.kendunnphoto.com

I have been thinking about a similar purchase and seems to me all the signs point to the Panasonic 3ccd models like the PV-GS400

or the AG-DV30. They seem to have the best bang for the buck and most folks put them ahead of the GL1.

here is a different link to whom I bought that canvas from in case the other expires http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=sms..11 . I had their phone # but can't find it.

I just bought some canvas and about to try the same thing. I bought it after the close of auction from this fellow http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=79004&item=3851740580&rd=1#ShippingPayment and he was really nice and shipped right away. If you are near SE KY you can come and we will figure it out together, lol. Shipping is pretty high, but I went in with another friend and we bought two rolls and that helped. Don't think they are trying to make anything on shipping either beccasue this thing was huge and weighed a ton, looked like a roll of carpet! Good luck and wish me the same! Kenny

RJ-

35mm lenses may resolve more but that is due to a optical problem in making the lens of larger formats cover a greater area. The question is worth asking so one will know when enough is enough, I mean a 100 MP sensor is going to be overkill on 35mm lenses, but on 4x5 or maybe even 6x9 it may very well be a different story.....

Lots of people were thinking that the original 1DS were pushing the limits of the lenses. It would have to be getting close, they used to say that film enlargements from 35mm where pushing the limits at 16x20 or so and that the best films were out resolving the best lenses, now digital cameras are way past this point. Who knows. A friend of mine today showed me a picture with a BLad and a digital back, holy crap, that thing was incredible, the detail and sharpness at 30 x 30 was unreal. I guess for $30,000 what do you expect?

what is some of the better light weight heads for video?

I think it would then come down to iso, you can get another stop or two from the MII with the same noise level. I think the new firmware is suppose to fix the banding problem in the 20D.....now you have something else to worry about, lol.

I use Mamiya 645 and find it to be the best compromise. The prices now are very reasonable (esp used), you can use your filters and other in front of lens accessories with no problems unlike a rangefinder (which if you are doing landscapes is very importaint), lenses are wonderful and plentyful, it is almost as versitaile as 35mm and weighs about the same, lots of accessories including winders, bellows, etc, and its not an anvil like the Pentax 67. I strip mine down to a waist level and 3 lenses for backpacking and the weight is very reasonable.

If someone comes out with a great full frame camera under 5k you can bet Canon will. As a matter of fact if the Mamiya is a good as I think it might be and priced under $10,000 the DS MII may be closer to $5000 than $8000 by the end of next year...

I have a 1D and sometimes I batch convert to jpg with it, but thats about it. There are lots of programable functions you can set with it, but all this changing of buttons kinda freaks me out so I just learn to use it stock, lol. Use Photoshop for RAW. IF you were to need the disc I would send you a copy.