Barbecue- Propane or Charcoal

[Flight]

I have a friend who uses nothing but charcoal, it's the flavor he says.

I almost never barbeque but to me, nothing taste better cooked over plain wood in a grill.

[walterick]

Chevy.

[drg]

WOOD! Or at least a wood/charcoal mix. Propane is too much like cooking inside: my gas stove actually has a grill attachment and an appropriate exhaust to to grill indoors if I desire.

I shoot a LOT of film. Nothing beautiful most of the time, just documentation and the film is still required for many contractual and legal reasons. But it all gets scanned as well. The documentation standards for banking and certain recording keeping hasn't fully translated itself to the rest of the world yet.

When I use a digital camera, (and I've several both personal and for work) it pays for itself in terms of not using film in months rather than a year. I usually calculated the 35mm cost of slides at about $ten bucks a roll (bulk purchase, the film fridge, developing and yes, we follow EPA guidelines or make sure the lab we use does, when it comes to disposing of all the chemicals). It doesn't take long to pay for a new body when you stop and think about it. Since my workflow is digital, its a wash.

As far as working at a computer vs the darkroom, well if I spill coffee its usually on something that doesn't matter as much and I can work on the road editing. I can also go shoot and within an hour or two have work to show the client if not sooner. I've never lost a digital original. I've still got chromes and negatives floating in FedEX/UPS/USPS space.

I'm probably going to use wood and film for as long as they both are available (or I am) but other cooking methods and digital, or whatever comes next will certainly consume more of my attention and the others will become nostalgic I imagine sooner rather than later.

A CD-R will hold 4-6 rolls of high resolution scans of 35mm film easily and a DVD will hold 10X that many if not more. Less Plastic, less environmental damage, and the images don't get dusty and cracked.

Don't fret that there another convert to the dark side completely, there's a newer M42 mount camera on its was to support some of the older Zeiss lenses.

.. and you can pry my 500CM out of my cold dead hands..

Mahalo