Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My 2 cents is you have the opportunity to get involved and enjoy photography in a way fewer people can these days. I started with color film, a corner drugstore, and a cheap film scanner then worked into processing my own B&W which evolved to include print making. I mostly scan film but haven't turned to inkjet printing yet because I'm still enamored by my Focomats. An old libertine once said, let desire guide you. At 07:16 PM 1/8/2009, you wrote: >A person that I shall not identify has just subscribed to the LUG, and he >is wondering if he has come to the right place. He says > >>Based on the first 100 emails from LUG, I wasn't sure I should lob basic >>issues into an apparently high level conversation > >and then later on he says > >>I have an M2 (c.a. 1957), the VisoFlex, five lenses, a pile of >>adapter rings and filters, a Pradovit projector, old light meters, etc... >> >>So, my questions: >> >>How many photographers -- serious and otherwise -- still use M2 or >>similar cameras? >>Who develops the film? >>Is it about using film and then digitizing the images, or what? > >What do you have to say to him? He's listening. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich MS, CPH Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018@med.cornell.edu http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049 "I am the radiation"