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really no purpose anymore for traditional films (negative or diapositve) (by 2006) ?



 
 
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Old December 5th 06, 04:09 AM posted to rec.photo.film+labs
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Rod Smith wrote:

Sometimes they return scratched or otherwise damaged negatives,
although that's more of a problem with 1-hour labs


I've seen them drop negatives on the floor at 1-hour labs. I suspect
the same probably happens at other consumer labs.

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Old December 5th 06, 08:02 AM posted to rec.photo.film+labs
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Greg \"_\" wrote:

It happens in Pro labs. I'll never forget the interview when I
applied for a job at a local pro lab now out of business....but
I saw one of their best printers drop a 4x5 negative and it went
sailing across the floor....Oh well is what he said....after he
chuckled and raised it up out of the dust.


Sounds like a lab in San Jose I used exactly once. Two weeks of
shooting 4x5 in the Sierra and they scratch all the negatives.
Many had roller marks as well. It was the stuff that depression
is made of.


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Old December 6th 06, 08:48 AM posted to rec.photo.film+labs
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Guess you could scan them and remove the problem areas.


If I can find them now. It was about 15 years ago.

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Old December 16th 06, 08:56 AM posted to rec.photo.film+labs
John Horner
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Hello,

I heard, that today there is no need anymore for traditional films
(negative or diapositve) because by postprocessing digital camera
shots(e.g. with Photoshop) everything can be done/achieved?


Is that true and is it really that simple?



For the purposes to which 90%+ of the silver based film has been
traditionally used, yes.

There will continue to be niche purposes for which film is the way to
go, but the niche grows smaller every day. There are artists making
Daguerreotype images to this day as well as tintypes, colloidion prints,
pinhole camera photos and the like. The world is full of obsolete
photographic equipment and processes. A few people find magic in these
and continue to create very special images with them, but the vast
majority of users both serious and casual moved on.

Stephen Johnson and others have been doing amazing large scale work
using digital scanning backs on larger format cameras. Thus even the
traditional domain of the 120/220 roll film cameras and even larger view
cameras has been largely taken over by large digital capture backs for
professional purposes.

We are witnesses to the end of one era and the start of another.

John

 




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