Re: [APML] Film is not dead

["Hap Griffin" <lgriffin@sc.rr.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Barlow" <mikeba@rochester.rr.com>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] Film is not dead


>
>     Last point, When a digital camera takes a "single" shot of a DSO
without
> editing and equaling a film shot, then I can start to agree with the
> "digital is better" group.
> Michael A. Barlow
>

What would be the point of that?  I used to take one to two hour single
exposures with film.  Now I take one to two hours of total exposure time in
multiple automated 5-minute exposures.  What's the difference?  My
processing time is actually shorter since the calibrating, stacking and
processing of the digital frames takes less total time than scanning in the
slides or film and having to go through a lot of processing heroics to get
the end product to look like I want.  When I factor in the time it takes to
drive to the film processing store twice...once to drop off the film and
another time to pick it up, the time involved with film is MUCH greater.

I certainly don't want to try to convince anyone of switching
formats...that's strictly a personal preference.  I only jumped into the
fray when some very misleading comments were posted by someone who had never
tried a modern DSLR.

Hap Griffin
www.machunter.org/hapspics.html

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