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Subject: [Leica] Not Buying M8/ I'm with Frank Filippone
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon Mar 10 19:29:41 2008
References: <1205175094.47d583362467b@panthermail.uwm.edu> <200803101907.m2AJ7hwh051362@server1.waverley.reid.org> <3cad89990803101910m4f055ecax75c527452a48f38a@mail.gmail.com> <01f001c8831e$c0a07d60$41e17820$@net>

For the cost of a Jobo, I can buy a slew of lenses, its just not worth the
price. I will shoot Reala & convert in Photoshop, or shoot C41 B&W film -
but digital is a far simpler deal.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Nah.. Fuji 800 Speed is pretty good!
>
> Or buy a JOBO and do it yourself...... it is not all that hard........
>
> On the point of E6.......There is 1 big Lab left out here.... A+I.  And a
> few smaller labs that do E6.  It used to be as you say. All over the
> place.
>
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
> Well - in my view, the problem is in the processing. Any photography shop
> in
> Chennai would accept E6 and B&W processing ten years ago. There is now one
> small shop left who processes E6, and charges an exorbitant US$11 per
> roll.
> The last shop willing to process B&W stopped last week. This in a city
> with
> a population of 8 million. The only way to go seems to be - buy fast
> lenses,
> and shoot Fuji Reala!
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
>
>
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