A personal observation on images worth keeping...
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:22 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Has anyone else noticed the curious inverse relationship between the number of films on the roll and the number of images on that film worth keeping?
After years of experimentation, I've come to the conclusion that except in very rare occasions (e.g. I'm very pleased with a series from a dead town in Arizona) I never seem to get more than two good shots per film!
36 * 35mm - two good shots
12 * 6x6 - two good shots
15 *645 - two good shots
1 * 4x5 - one good shot
And I hesitate to guess how many electric pictures deserve to go straight to /dev/null...
I'm sure it's to do with the care you feel you have to take when you have to consider every detail of the shot before you push the button, when it costs a couple of quid just to make the negative, and when you can't just click and wind on.
Is it just me?
Neil
p.s. I've never done 10*8 but by extrapolation I probably don't even need to push the button on those to get a good one!
After years of experimentation, I've come to the conclusion that except in very rare occasions (e.g. I'm very pleased with a series from a dead town in Arizona) I never seem to get more than two good shots per film!
36 * 35mm - two good shots
12 * 6x6 - two good shots
15 *645 - two good shots
1 * 4x5 - one good shot
And I hesitate to guess how many electric pictures deserve to go straight to /dev/null...
I'm sure it's to do with the care you feel you have to take when you have to consider every detail of the shot before you push the button, when it costs a couple of quid just to make the negative, and when you can't just click and wind on.
Is it just me?
Neil
p.s. I've never done 10*8 but by extrapolation I probably don't even need to push the button on those to get a good one!