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Posted: Tue Sep 8th, 2020 05:22

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My good friend Gordon is a very good railway photographer and has published some very high-quality railway books and is still very happy with hid Nikon D300. This is his interesting e-mail he sent me about then and now ie Rolleiflex-V-Modern DSLR (also used Rollei in the early days):

Hi Graham,
I suspect that publishing digital images on hi-def screens has brought 'perfect detail' to all - and somehow this is unsettling.
It may be that the Mk1 eyeball leads us astray. The DSLR reveals things that we didn't know are there.
Looking at those WW2 reconnaissance pictures reveals that the normal limits we accepted could be exceeded.
Liking old camera qualities allows some delightful variability and restores some room for our likes and dislikes and artistic interpretations. As someone who uses images to publish all the time, the new digital setup allows undreamed of precision (if that's what you want).
The old camera would probably do that with a digital back, but I wouldn't want to lose the digital precision of what we have, yet I wouldn't part with the artistic impressions available from film. However the WW1 images we saw, coloured, detailed and with sound (researched) and added were amazing.
I advance the answer: the optics are good, the shutters are tricky; exposure needs expertise - the film was limiting. Reality from the old blurry pics my family took was that if you wanted photos, go to a professional. Today 'point and press' gives you the dream on a plate.
Gordon.

Last edited on Tue Sep 8th, 2020 05:22 by Graham Whistler

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