Digital BW, The Print

You can't possibly be serious!  A courier can carry a DVD, memory card or
other storage device.  Camera power is an identical issue for both digital
and analogue cameras.  Digital storage devices don't necessarily need power
- some do some don't - your choice.  As for processing on the road, digital
is way ahead - ask ANY photographer who deals in time sensitive imagery.


> From: The Wogster <wogsterca@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:15:04 -0500
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Digital Camera
> 
> 
> Tom Baker wrote:
>> Using a good view camera is a real joy.  And a 1Ds setup may weigh as much,
>> or more than the light 4x5's.  However, for traveling where you can't easily
>> handle film processing, digital really shines.
>>  
> 
> However digital has another problem, which can be even greater.  I can
> always take unprocessed, but exposed film, and ship it home.  Couriers
> all over the world can handle this, especially if the box is marked, in
> the official language of the country your shipping from, as exposed
> photographic film, and to not open the film box, except under light free
> conditions.   Declare it using the proper customs forms, and send via
> courier or express mail (with a tracking number).  It's also not hard to
> take a 5x7 colour paper processing tube, and pick up some chemistries,
> load the tube in a changing bag, and process as you go, in country, then
> ship the negatives home.
> 
> With digital you need to either have a computer, or one of those
> download-to-CD machines with you, or you need to carry a lot of memory
> cards.  Then you need power, while North Americans enjoy relatively
> clean, trouble free power and Western Europe is just as good.  In many
> other countries, power that varies wildly in quality and quantity, can
> be considered good, because it's better then nothing at all, which is
> what they get most of the time.  Fine for lights, okay for a hair-dryer
> or an electric shaver, but not for a computer or digital camera.
> 
> W
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