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I have even been toying with the idea of getting a Mamiya RB67 again for studio work. No way I will go back in the darkroom but film did hold some good points, particularly medium format



...and I'm finally ready to give mine up, ! During my first couple of years of mainstream DSLR use I kept my Mamiya 645 loaded and going with Velvia for those "special images". But now that I'm getting the photomerge technique down I'm am ready to completly retire the MF gear. 4 to 6 (or even more sometimes)frames shot with the Canon 5D and using one of my superb adapted Contax lenses give me just as much satisfying detail in large prints as I was used to to with my mf gear. There are still some subtle differences in color graduation and such where I feel digital still falls behind but basically it's more than good enough now to please me.

But..... some of my old Velvia slides still give me goosebumps when viewed. There's just something about them that just feels right! Of course there was also all the money and time wasted processing the slides only to find one or two keepers out of a roll of 36. Now I just download and delete the same day I shoot and a lot of times this gives me the option to reshoot something if the initial results were lacking.

Jim www.pbase.com/jhuddle