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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 01-17-2024, 07:16 AM  
Poll: Do you shoot digital? Film? Or both? Best of PF Newsletter Jan 17 Poll
Posted By gwing
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For me digital was a huge step forward as my medium was colour transparencies and digital gave me the 'darkroom' control which in the film days was really only open to the b/w folks. To be fair you could, if you shot colour negatives for printing, get some benefit from your own darkroom but it always seemed to me that little creative/corrective control was available and for colour you basically had to process it correctly rather than do gross and unrealistic colour mistakes/manipulations , especially for the transparencies I used.

That said, for all digital's advantages, I think there *is* a difference in the look of film and digital images and that film images can look more natural, or at least less processed due to their different characteristics. Digital images tend to have their tones expressed as an 'S' curve while film evolved to have a few stops of latitude allowing more tonal range in the mid tones i.e. it was like an 'S' but with a linear section in the middle, also digital images tend to have increased colour saturation in the highlights while both film and the human eye see reduced colour saturation in the highlights. (For those interested recent versions of 'darktable' are making a genuine attempt to improve colour handling in general and in particular to allow more film-like rendering of images).

So, for me, I'll likely never get rid of my film cameras but may never use them again. I almost certainly won't buy another film camera as, even if I did, it likely wouldn't give me as much pleasure as using my original MX would.
Forum: Pentax News and Rumors 01-08-2024, 04:47 AM  
Latest news on film project
Posted By gwing
Replies: 263
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Don't get me wrong, I still have my old MX which I purchased with my first salary cheque and even ended up using it without the battery and a separate incident meter so it truly was a purely mechanical/clockwork camera, and it is a thing of beauty, and I love it. And it has proved far more robust and reliable than my LX.

But

The days when it was cheaper (or at least as cheap) to lovingly hand craft precision engineering than use electronics are long gone, trying to make something like this today would be outrageously expensive and impractical which might add to its loveliness but likely wouldn't do Pentax, and hence us, any favors. A 'modern' slr that uses an electronically controlled shutter and full compatibility with the lens range would surely perform better. Perform being an nicely ambiguous word that could either apply to photographic performance or sales figures :-)
Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing 04-26-2014, 03:25 AM  
Darktable vs Lightroom
Posted By gwing
Replies: 12
Views: 11,868
Don't worry support for K3 PEFs is coming in darktable. Raw support in darktable comes from the RawSpeed project and we have already supplied Klaus PEFs from the K3 which he has in hand although darktable hasn't yet updated to his latest libraries. Personally I just take DNG in camera and haven't had mine set to PEFs for three years or so now even though dt handles PEFs from my kit but each to their own. As a stopgap I think some of the guys to whom the exif data is particularly interesting use exiftool or similar to read the DNG and rewrite non-standard field info into standard fields dt uses - and there was even some talk on the darktable forum of integrating that with darktable's LUA scripting engine so it is done automatically when an image is opened. That's about all I know as the extra lens detail doesn't personally interest me, my lenses are recognised even from the DNG file information so the lens aberration correction module can work properly and that's all I need.
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