Strange logic.
If you just drop off your film and happy with result that others did
for you, why don't you just drop off your media card and pick up your
picture and be happy with it? Not mcu difference if you go by that
route and you will save a lot on film as well!!
That woud be shooting JPG and not making any adjustments. Camera
labs make adjustments during developing. My film prints were day and
night different when I switched from $4/roll to $10/roll developing.
On one hand, you work so diligently to turn out photos from raw files
and on the other hand you just shot from a roll film camera ( a 35mm,
I presume?) and enjoy photographs turn out by a lab with no crop, no
nothing done to your negative? Anything changes in you or your
technic so improved by being able to check your result and makes
changes by doing digital that now you turn out technically perfect
photos now?
my photolab does adjustments during developing, see above. The
prints I get from film are as good or better than what I spend lots
of time with processing RAW files. Colors are more accurate with
film. I prefer not to crop an image aside from print ratios. I do
more cropping with family shots, but I'm not overly concerned with
them.
If you tend to use the 6mp files to work on the photos, what gives?
You still have to work with the files except now they are thousands
of jpeg instead of raw and much less you can do to your photoe!! If
it was jpeg that you want, why not set your whatever camera to just
jpeg on the first hand? (Real man only use jpeg, that is what some
said, you know)
I gave that as a point of reference in case someone asked about
having to scan the negatives myself. I've only gotten a few rolls
scanned during development and have so far only reprinted 4x6s,
though there are some good ones that may be printed larger. I would
scan the negatives at a higher dpi if I needed to print larger than
8x10.
A 6mp scan? What sort of raw file (or jpeg)are you talking about?
Mine grow from those managable D1 raw to the Ds and D2H and now for
see response above. It is just an option during film development.
It is not just snapping the shutter, you know. If those files can
just sit there, why took them on the first hand. Why not just go over
guickly and weed out what you don't want. Batch the rest, then send
the card to Costco, Walmart or what ever. Or you can just save the
files and start watching slide shows. Or, heaven forbide, just delete
them?
I do delete bad shots, but I still have that many undone. JPG isn't
an option for a high quality good looking image. Too often the
levels have to be balance. There might be too few colors in the
image and overall it is too bright as-shot or the image came out a
little dark. The same adjustments made in RAW to help exposure are
done with film developing.
And you can't batch process RAW files without making corrections for
each individual RAW file. If you batch process a bunch of RAWs
you're basically making as-shot JPGs
