Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/10

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Subject: [Leica] Not Buying M8/ I'm with Frank Filippone
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan dimitrov)
Date: Mon Mar 10 19:39:43 2008
References: <1205175094.47d583362467b@panthermail.uwm.edu> <200803101907.m2AJ7hwh051362@server1.waverley.reid.org> <3cad89990803101910m4f055ecax75c527452a48f38a@mail.gmail.com> <01f001c8831e$c0a07d60$41e17820$@net> <3cad89990803101929p66b7274end649257507d1f14e@mail.gmail.com>

There's still some serious processing taking place out there.
How does one justify this kind of price: 190203669489 .
s.d.


On Mar 10, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> 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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