My photography journey, Fourth Milestone
In the previous chapter I mentioned about scanning film and working on the digital darkroom with Photoshop.
Sony had just released the Alfa cameras, and the local Sony office in Chile would lend you the cameras for testing; I tried the A700, A850 and A900, which I used on different photography tours. Even Sony financed the exhibit I made on a gallery.
After testing these cameras, the pixel numbers were still small compared to what I obtained from the scanner and the medium format film camera, so decide to wait till Sony or other brand would come out with larger pixel count, at an affordable price.
It took some time that I would purchase a Sony camera, it was only when they came out with Sony A7R with 40+ Megapixel where it became for me a new milestone and started working fully on digital and slowly leaving behind the analog world.
With this large number of pixels, I was able to print large images without the need of my medium format camera. Sometimes I would sandwich two vertical images producing a square format image, similar in pixel size of the scan of the medium format slide/negative.
Few years later I would move to the Sony A7R IV, which has 50+ megapixels, and some additional features that worked well for the type of photography I do.
In addition, for the RAW development of the digital images I tested Sony software, Capture One and Little Room. Although at the beginning Capture One had in my opinion a better shadow treatment, Lightroom soon was up to the mark, and decided to use only Adobe tools, standardizing all my images in one platform. Moving all my image into one digital catalog: Lightroom
In next chapter I will talk on the digital printing.
