[Leica] Use of Film, Leicas Cause Ex-LUG-ger to Post Again

[robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)]

Bob--  The Alley Soccer is delightful.    Bob


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From: "bob palmieri" <rpalmier@depaul.edu>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 5:30 PM
Subject: [Leica] Use of Film, Leicas Cause Ex-LUG-ger to Post Again


> Y'all -
> 
> I've been off the LUG since last summer, when I had the experience of 
> traveling around the Northeastern USA with a number of different things 
> to shoot.  I carried my 20D with four lenses and my M6, also with four 
> lenses.
> Try as I did, I couldn't seem to shoot a single frame of film for the 
> entire week long trip.  I figured my favorite film rigs were history.
> 
> Recently, however, I've found myself shooting Leicas with Film and 
> feeling pretty good about the experience.  Here are some examples...
> 
> In this shot of a labor rally here in Chicago, the 15mm Voightlander 
> and a CL loaded with Fuji (low contrast 4-layer portrait film) seemed 
> ideal for dealing with wildly mixed light and close quarters (the 
> vignetting is kinda cool, too):
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/stroger_labor_rally_21
> 
> In this early morning low angle sunlight streetshot in Brooklyn I felt 
> that the ability of the Kodak 400CN to deal with a very wide lighting 
> ratio without burning out the highlights was helpful (M6 w/50mm 
> collapsible Summicron):
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/99_cent_3600_med_cntrst
> 
> And this interior snap (M6, 21CV on Neopan in T-Max) also seems to hold 
> detail across a wide range of brightnesses with that familiar grainy 
> texture:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/Excercise_Program_1
> 
> On the other hand, this 20D shot (in the alley behind a fancy 
> restaurant in downtown Chicago) kinda looks to me like it might have 
> looked a little better if I had used one of those film rigs:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/alley_soccer_52_b_w_jpeg
> 
> 'Course, the DSLR has been a great tool in a whole lot of other 
> situations in the studio and out shooting live music... although come 
> to think about it there was one time when the damn clack & whirr of the 
> peskey thing prevented me from shooting at all during a recital of 20th 
> century piano music.
> 
> So, count me in as one of those who hopes that enough of these archaic 
> tools and materials stick around for awhile...  'Meantime, I'm sure the 
> digiworld will be catching up with the need for quiet, small cameras 
> with optical viewfinders and wide dynamic range sensors (I'm sure the 
> "grain simulators" will be improving as well.)
> 
> Comments, of course, are welcome, I think...
> 
> Bob Palmieri
> 
> 
> 
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