Shooting finished!

Roll finished!

I have finished shooting the roll of Kodachrome 64, 10/29/10.  I shot the last two frames without the benefit of exposure checking on the digital camera.  I did bracket.  It has been fun shooting the slide film but I do not want to go back to shooting film.  I greatly appreciate the immediacy of shooting digital.  I bring my image files into my “digital darkroom” and process them upon my return from the shoot.  Even with my careful records it helps me to have the shoot fresh in my mind.  My memory is not what it used to be

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I suppose that there is one question in my mind which I need to answer.  Can I use smaller apertures to gain deeper depth of field without sacrificing detail and sharpness as I do with my digital camera?  I will examine the slide frames carefully.  I think that diffraction is a digitally created phenomenon. 

I do sacrifice sharpness with my “hybrid” approach to shooting film.  My scanner is a weak point in the process.  I may discuss this in a later blog.

The lack of immediacy is a big deal to me.  I want to know immediately if I have made an error.  I go back the next day to try to correct the error.  Things are seldom the same because nature is never static.  I do get things corrected some of the time.  Of course, the best strategy is to shoot it correctly the first time.  I want to improve in this area.