ultimately i am a little bit lazy in writing here, maybe because i said most things already i learned about digital gear and i dont like to repeat myself over and over.
furthermore i think the only way to respond to people which i would call trolls is not to argue with them. this disussions lead to nothing than nonsense, although there are posts in it which really are worth to read, as your long response about the different systems, james.
lots of things which i could only do for reading and ( more so ) sharing here and in other boards, i think this forums are a big thing in the internet.
i admire the tolerant way michael is letting run this forum, passing it over big crisis in a very quiet and sovereign way, so he is right not coming in this discussions. i believe LL and esp. this mf board will not brake down by a little number of trolls, as i think this are very very few people, compared to many who share with good intention and experience and compared to a surprising big number of people who just read.
in general i learned a lot in these forums. esp. when i started with digital some years ago. sharing deepened my experience and the thinking about the problems, which motly heve been caused by simple technical flaws. i am opened to give back knowledge in the same way i picked it up, and i raised my personal experience-level in discussions with others. for me this was very important and so i go on to spend time here, which is often the time i am waiting in any case for some image processions to be done.
funny is that with no tools i learned more about digital capturing or technic than with the cameras which did not work as expected. e.g. i have shot things with the kodak 14n and slr, using workarounds and ways i only can wonder myself how i did it, today looking back. i did this after i realized that digital capturing could bring another aesthetic and another language in my images which i did not wanted to give up again. unfortunately nearly nothing worked as announced or expected, so i tried to find ways that this tools could work for me.
result has been to learn to shoot with the kodaks only with iso6 and 2,4 greyfilters in daylight .... working with grey shots, layering and inverting these to remove the color casts and so on. this technics really have had to be invented or collected in this time, this was possible only because i discussed the problems in forums and added the experence of others to my own.
after getting the e22 i asked mr. gottschalt to build a sliding back for his cameras because i never was content with the possibilities the market offered, which meant to work with distorted optical viewers or to remove the back all the time if i wanted to use a groundglass.
later i searched a way to make work the first e75 unit i had,- unlinear color response, centerfold, color shifts, but i wanted to continue to work with this back .... so i found stephan hess in an old post here in ll, contacted him and together we improved his brumbaer tools to a level none of the big companies has gone from its own. getting as result a very personal and pratical workflow for my architecture work and a lot of knowledge. which i could share later even with manufacturers. soon you will see some results ....
