[Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.

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  Ted - it's great that he has you for a mentor and what a mentor at that !!

I still shoot film because it's a link to my Father and to my past, It's 
different from Digital, I love the surprise of what I've shot rather 
than spending time looking at the LCD - I think it gets you to think at 
the time about whether the shot will work or not rather than just 
blindly shooting a bunch of RAW or JPG and we'll edit  later ( 
pre-visualize now!)

ernie

On 5/16/2011 4:28 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:
> Lawrence Zeitlin OFFERED:
> Subject: [Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.
>
>
>> Teen agers are discovering the joy of film photography. No Leicas but 
>> plenty
>> of Holgas, Canons. and Minoltas. According to the CNET article film 
>> camera
>> sales are rising.
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20062810-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&tag=nl.e703
>>  
>>
>
> Hi Larry,
> I don't know about film cameras rising in sales? Simply because my 
> grandson who is about to graduate from a photography school here in 
> Victoria, has been using an M6 shooting film during the past 10 months 
> besides his digital cameras. Lots of film left over from my ancient 
> days of film. :-) B&W, slide E6 & colour neg! Near cleaned it out by now!
>
> This is something he has done on his own. WHY?
>
> When I asked him, he responded with? " Well you shot thousands of 
> rolls of film and souped them so I thought it would be a good idea if 
> I learned! Just in case!" He has shot lots of rolls of film, loves it! 
> WHY? "Well I have negatives to look at on the light table later! And 
> that's cool!" :-)  Youth? You have to love some of them as they look 
> at the future as a place to kick ass and be successful! He will be! 
> He's got the right attitude! :-)
>
> And on 24 May he turns 21 years young and is absolutely gung ho about 
> photography, photojournalism and shooting video! And is a natural 
> writer, physically going to be a good looking young guy in front of a 
> TV video camera as a broadcaster if that comes to be. There isn't 
> going to be any holding him as he says .... " I want to be as great as 
> you are grandpa! But I'm aiming at being better!" Then he smiles and 
> winks at me! :-)
>
> The school no longer teaches anything about film, nor processing! 
> However when you have a grandson who came out of the womb into a world 
> of photography and film for the past 21 years? Damn right he's going 
> to know how to soup and shoot film, digital and stand in front of a 
> camera! And sound and look intelligent!
>
> No concerns about this young fellow's future as he's going to do just 
> fine! "OR I'M GOING TO KICK HIS ASS ALL OVER THE PLACE!" ;-) And he 
> knows that! :-)
>
> cheers,
> Grandpa ted :-)
>
>
>
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