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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
isn't that some incredibly sloooooow stuff?
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Outrageously slow! I think Illford was the last film manufacturer that was making anything even close, and I believe that was 40 ASA. The results that can be obtained when shooting landscape photography in low light conditions with it using very fast lenses can be magnificent.
We've sold out a lot of our traditional values in favor of speed and efficiency. We opt more and more for instant results, be it in food prep (TV Dinners, Fast Food joints, etc. = speed over flavor,) Electronic repair... swap an entire card rather than replace one transistor, and photographic output. Remember the days when we'd bring our rolls of film to the shop, and then wait a full week to get back the prints? These days we look for the nearest 1-Hour Developing place. In the 'Good old days' the shop tech would handle one roll of film at a time, adjusting the development process for
each frame to insure optimum results. Today, they only look at the first frame, optimize that, and uses those setting for the rest of the roll. Fast, but not nearly as good.
Digital is bringing back a lot of the traditional quality, but that's up to the skill of the Photoshop tech. Most folks simply don't bother. Only those of us who are dealing with magazine output really pay careful attention to white balance, color correction, hue and saturation, vibrancy, etc., etc. to say nothing of the histogram corrections! The difference is good picture or great picture.
Stitchawl