[Leica] Heading into 2008

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin@afirkin.com)]

Thanks Harrison, that could be a solution: use film for "snaps". Gives life 
to the M6, but of course I will always have the "wrong" camera on me ;-) The 
darkroom is still a great pleasure, but "finding the time" is hard. If I 
give my self enough time, I love it.

Cheers

--- lists@mcclary.net wrote:

From: Harrison McClary <lists@mcclary.net>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Heading into 2008
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:06:53 -0600

Alastair,

I have found myself shooting more and more film for my personal photography 
of my family.  Shooting digital gets awful close to "work" having to 
download the photos, edit them then send them to be printed...with film I 
run into COSTCO, get them printed and put on a CD...I have prints and a CD 
for any digital files I may want...my hard drives thank me.

I have set up my small enlarger in the upstairs bathroom and sometimes make 
B&W prints the old way even. It is not quite as much fun as I remember it 
being, but it is good to do occasionally.



afirkin@afirkin.com wrote:
>
> I was lazing around in the heat over the weekend, catching up with my 
> reading and feeling a bit nostalgic. So I pulled out the "family-albums" 
> and reviewed family images I've taken dating back to the early 70's. I 
> have to say, that I have yet to become convinced that the "snap-shots" 
> produced by the digital "techniques" are anything like as good as the 
> snaps taken with film a few years earlier, and b/w still rings bells, so 
> it is with this in mind, that new year resolution number one is to clear 
> out the junk from the darkroom (ie all that colour gear) and get back into 
> printing. Look out print exchange ;-)
>   


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