Quietly working on Flow

[DaveSee]

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Hi all!

Tut mir leid dass ich nicht so gut Deutsch scrieben koennte, allerdings...

..that my German isn't so good, many thanks to all of those who spotted(!) the M8 shortcomings, and set out to better the situation: you have taught me a lot about what I see of what this little beast records.

 

Having worked out some sort of "digital workflow" with my neg scanner and film, I find the data offered up by this overly sensitive M a new challenge, and not because of "banding", "green blobs", nor "IR contamination." I've never had so many types of "film"(light capturing potential) in one body, during one outing with a couple primes before; and importantly in a camera that /stays out of my way/ as do my film Ms, quietly, politely and with a clear view with everything in focus to my eye.[1]

 

Too bad that I am forever looking for a red or cyan cast--I have a couple 486s--and that with renewed fervor I check my CRT callibration versus my laptop LCD... not that bad, and not apologizing for passive-aggressive marketing. My lenses are at home with the film Ms, and so too am I coaxing them to make sense of what this M8(and DNG file) yields with them... not leaving film, unless it leaves me!

 

My point? Two, actually: thanks for caring enough about what you do--and not merely spend--to share your views; and that I have yet to use C1 because I run Linux and Ed Hamrick's VueScan... both of which can make very good use of this little beast's digital data. Now, back to play, and working out a new Flow.

 

TimF pulled a great Ansel Adams quote in another thread[2]... I'm still rehearsing!

 

rgds,

Dave

 

[1] Second-hand teaching from a Winogrand pupil I'd met: nice characterization of the RF camera "view".

[2] "The negative is the score. The print is the performance".

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