Archive for the ‘ Rant ’ Category

Winds of Change are Blowing…

Change, it is somewhat of a constant in life, as contradictory as that may sound. Since LifeInDigitalFilm’s inception about a year and a half ago, the blog has made many little changes, shifts if you will, but never strayed too far from the original purpose. That purpose was to distribute my film emulation presets. However, [ READ MORE ]

Rant: The Great Debate – Film vs Digital

[Image scanned by ScanCafe from old, cheap 3M film shot on Minolta Maxxum 7000 ] I really don’t know what triggered this, but it seems the great film vs digital debate has risen from the depths of Flickr groups and message boards and surfaced in the photo blogging community. In the past few weeks I have read pieces [ READ MORE ]

Rant: Lightroom Wishlist

Recently the Twitter persona of the Lightroom team asked what plug-ins would we most like to see for Lightroom. Which is fine, but most plug-ins process their magic on raster images. If that was a concern, I hit my go to Lightroom plug-in Photoshop. Another big question that should be considered is “What features does Lightroom [ READ MORE ]

Rant: Mama, they took my Kodachrome away!

If there has ever been a sad day in film photography for me, today is it. Kodak officially announced their discontinuation of the Kodachrome line of slide film after 74 years of production in one incarnation or another. The announcement comes as no surprise, due to the complexity of the emulsion and the [ READ MORE ]

Rant: Shoot Film! (and other stuff)

[Photo Info: Kodak Portra 160 NC, Minolta Maxxum 7000, Minotla Maxxum 50mm f/1.7] Okay, I still have not written an actual article, and I don’t want to release a preset tonight as I have released quite a few this week…I will have a new black and white preset up tomorrow however. I did want to [ READ MORE ]