Originally Posted by
Jagboi
I mainly do railroad photography, and nothing else makes Canadian Pacific red look right. Since its outdoors, other films or digital can get everything else pretty close, but that's not critical. As long as the trees are green, the eye is happy. However, the red seems to be tricky to render so that you can look at an image and say its right. With Fuji, it tends to go to orange, same with digital. If I correct it, the other colours go off. The now discontinued Ektachrome EPN was a close second because it doesn't have the hyper saturation that most films have. Velvia is terrible, it makes everything look like Disneyland. I probably could get everything right if I spent a lot of time in Photoshop with masking and layers, but why bother when I can do it the easy way?
with proper colour management, it should actually be very easy to get the exact colour. there's no need to muck with photoshop layers and masking.
How so? I file the negs in archival sleeves, index it and forget about it. It really couldn't be much easier. I never have to worry about upgrading to "shoebox 2.0". Perhaps try Googling "digital dark age" to see why I'm concerned about all electronic data.
no need to be concerned with keeping it in a cool, dry and dark place, protected from fire, flood, etc. and the fact that it is impossible to have identical copies.
Never lost anything yet in 25 years. I live in a dry climate so mould isn't an issue, and I usually shoot several in camera "dupes". One to file, another to make prints from. I have had hard drive crashes and lost data though.
shooting multiple photos makes film even more expensive, particularly with sheet film.
That's certainly not true. I've made Cibachromes from 5"x7" Kodachrome originals shot between 1945 and 1953 and the colours are as bright as when they were shot. Ektachromes faded badly, but not Kodachrome. Modern E6 films are estimated to be good for at least 100 years, and of course colour fading isn't an issue with B&W. I wish I could still buy Kodachrome sheet film...
although they may not have faded very much, it's definitely not zero. digital does not fade at all. in fact, software, displays and printers get better, so in the future, the image quality
improves.
I don't want all the so called "features"! I'd be very happy if there was a digital version of a Canon F1 or Nikon F3/F4: Tough, reliable, simple and totally controllable by me without drilling through layers of menus. Most of the time I don't even need a light meter, I can estimate within 1/3 of a stop in daylight.
most dslrs have a lot of buttons so the reliance on menus is minimized and you can turn off any feature you don't want. i can't think of any dslr that can't be a 'fully manual slr' if the user chooses. and at least the menus use text; older nikon bodies such as the f5 had numeric custom functions and the user had to memorize which was which (or carry a reference card).