Some Background...

This blog's heading is subject to change.

When I first set this blog up almost two years ago, I was just testing the digital camera waters. I converted from a wet darkroom to a scanned work flow as soon as the Epson 2200 printer was available and never regretted it.

However, I never subscribed to the Photoshop concept of image processing but kept to software that let me keep my thought processes more akin to those of the wet darkroom; programs like PWPro and Lightzone and Qimage seem more natural to me.

Finally, in 2007, I bought an Olympus 720SW to test the digital waters. I soon found that the ability to get my images into the work flow without scanning, not to mention the time delay to get film processed and the film/processing costs, were pushing me more to digital capture.

When Olympus announced the E420, I saw in it a camera that was close (except for the digital control clutter) to my last film SLR, an Olympus OM2.

The E420 is for me what a modern SLR should be. I have even taken a pass on the E620 despite its advanced features because it just did not fit my hand like the E420. Kirk Tuck's recent post on a camera's "feel" was spot on target.

I still shoot some film, because there is no exact digital equivalent to my Konica Hexar AF, Bessa T and Ricoh GR1v...so I will be shooting some Ektar100 and sending it out for processing and hi-res scanning. The film reference will stay in this blogs title for now.

Going forward, I will be covering my somewhat off track ideas about lighting equipment and digital work flow.

So for now....