Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeffery, Well, for the most part rangefinders are still raging on. Tina and Ted will be showing us more and more of their M8 images. For the most part, all of my PAW's are film based, M originated images. Many on this list are still shooting film, probably a minority at this point but still a significant number. Digital is attracting the attention because the work flow is much easier. I must admit that developing film is becoming a minor chore and my preference is E-6 as the processing is for me much easier(someone else does the work) But, I shot what will probably be some very good images of the framers working on the house next door and the excitement of looking at the negatives for the first time tomorrow morning will be the same rush as it has always been. Possibly it is the same reason that we no longer endlessly debate the optical qualities of first generation Summicrons versus Summitar's; the points have all been made many times. In the past few years there haven't been too many radical breakthroughs in film. The new IR from Rollei is pretty interesting as you don't have to load it in the dark, the new Velvia 100F brings back most of the qualities of the old Velvia with some lessening of the over the top red saturation. Yawn. The beer in the saloon is still just the way you want it, the scenes from rural Britain continue to amaze, travelogues from Amsterdam and nearby countries down to Seville bring us to places we probably will never go, photo tips and crits from Ted help us all get better. So, your point that we have a large group of friends that occasionally talk about Leica's and film is well taken. Clink, cheers and long life. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 11/11/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > > The rangefinder rage over the past 6 years has been fun and exciting. When > I > first got back into film photography in about 2000, the renewed interest > in > rangefinder cameras came at just the time I had a renewed interest in B&W > photography. There were many, many posts on the LUG, LEG, Rflist, and CVUG > lists. But now that digital has caught on and is here to stay, I have more > and more trouble finding film-related threads on the lists. Indeed, the > posts on the CVUG and Rflist are few and far between these days. I'm > wondering if the LUG should bifurcate into a LUG and a dLUG. I guess not. > The people on the LUG like one another too much to build a wall separating > formats. > > I guess this all really hit me when I tried to buy a Pentax 35mm SLR. I > had > to get one second-hand at KEH. > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > http://www.400tx.com > http://400tx.blogspot.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >