In some of your past posts, you had noted that you had retired as a
professional photographer. I couldn't help but notice your penchant
for Lica lenses. That told me that you had the eye and mind for
state of the art equipment and image quality. I have a healthy
respect for the quality of work put out by the "old" lens grinders
and polishers. The price tag that went along with such works of art
does not seem to fit into the "throw away" mentality of today's
society. How do you tell young people that "life time" equipment is
the "cheapest" buy? O.K., enough rambling on my part.
Now what I am about to ask of you could almost be considered a contradiction of terms. That's why I am asking you.
I have just finished up an opossum reference photo series on floppy
disk under the Whitetail Designer Systems label. If you would, I
would appreciate a review and critique from you. I would like it to
be approached from two different angles. One angle being the quality
of the photos as taxidermy reference photos, and the second would be
a comparable in regards to quality comparing the quality of today's
digital photos against the quality of traditional lenses and prints.
You would know all the weaknesses to look for.
I know, it's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. But look at it
this way, the 'possum pictures would be your's to keep and cherish for
forever!
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Mr. Cherney aka ETCC, public review and critique of reference photos?
Yep its cheaper to buy the good stuff. Even back then my camera and 50MM LENS, 135 TELEPHOTO LENS, BAG, CAMERA COVER cost $485.00 well I still have it, it still works fine, its also one of the few that are shutter preferred and apeture preferred. Yep it can do both! with the close up adapters it can pull in very small details. This camera has been in Central America, Mid East (iraq and others), all over Europe, even to several Gunnery Operations, Last year I took it to Alaska along with a Sony Digital. Shot over 20 rolls of 35mm film. Lets see I am one the third digital at this point and never had a failure with the Konica. and the Sony was cheaper at todays price than the Konica cost new.
Gotta love the old glass grinders!
and sometimes softly.
It is now past High Noon, and ETCC has not shown up for the photo
show down.
He messed up Big Time, he missed a perfectly good chance to get his
name in the Archives.
John C., I am aware that you are perfectly capable of critiquing
taxidermy reference photos, and from information in your above post,
you could also make an objective comparison of quality in regards to
digital versus chemical images.
John C., would you care to critique this series? It is a large file,
a floppy disk's worth, an e-mail account would need to be large enough
or empty enough to hold it.
Glen
I have done some digital photography, filled a lot of disk last year in Alaska. While I have not mastered the digital stuff, I am learning more about it each day and know if you have the money to spend on Nikon there is some really great cameras out there. I just dont have the $3,000 plus to get what I want.
Cameras digital or film, like everything elses you what you pay for!