[Leica] M7, M8, Film, Digital, same lenses

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

Well, Here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, film processing is still in good shape and 
easily obtained.  Not as cheap as in years gone by, but readily available 
and very high quality.

Gene


-------------- Original message from "Alastair Firkin" 
<firkin@ncable.net.au>: -------------- 


> Tina, 
> this is exactly the frustration that 'forced' me to go digital. You cannot 
> really swim against the tide and the the colour tide is digital. Even if 
> you wanted to, the equipment for film processing etc will be run by the 
> most junior staff (the good ones are running the digital equipment), the 
> maintainence will be poor (if you think your chemicals were out of date!!) 
> quality control will not be of the Robin Williams kind and film handling 
> will be less "stringent". Most of my recent films are damaged etc even 
> from the lab that used to do a good job, and I'm sure this is the reason. 
> 
> Unless you process enough film yourself, I think labs will not be reliable 
> soon and film processing and printing will be "erratic". 
> 
> 
> > LUG: 
> > 
> > One of the totally unintended consequences of buying the M8 is that I 
> > have returned to using film. 
> 
> snip. 
> 
> 
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