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

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

One of these day's I'll reach a point when I'll have my scanners up and
running again and tweaked and my negs handy and I'll be going through them
scanning like crazy and printing them. I'll be Uploading them to the lug
gallery (as many were shot with Leicas) and to my own website or other
places.
At that point I'll be rocking and rolling and like Ted's son feel like I've
got the best of both worlds.
I may even at that point shoot a few fresh rolls on my film cameras.


I may also my rent an 8x10 camera and shoot that for the first time. It's
always been a dream of mine. And scan them on a flatbed. A Ford I hope.



Mark


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Mark William Rabiner




> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:50:37 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.
> 
> Mark Rabiner OFFERED:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Hot news! There is life in film yet.
> 
>>>>> People who have left their darkrooms behind have no apologies to make.
>>>>> And
>> I'm one of them.<<<<<
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I joined that club pretty soon after inkjet printers came along, improved
> and improved!  And the printing papers continued to improve in weight,
> surfaces and software for making adjustments to print improvement.
> 
>  I think my major turning point to go all inkjet printing was seeing some 
> of
> Tina's prints at the Cape Cod Leica Seminar some years ago. Absolutely
> magnificent!  Another who produced some amazing prints was BD who also had
> influence in my decision.
> 
> However there are a few technical things that make inkjet the way to go.
> It's the simplicity of printing, adjusting and weights of and surfaces of
> papers. Capture a well exposed and beautiful image and with some printing
> skills, somewhat like those required to make great wet tray prints. A 16X20
> or 13X19 print can blow you away and sell for very good prices.
> 
> Then when you go out in the garden on a nice day, shoot up a storm of
> "pretty flowers!" Walk in house, down load card to computer, tweak the 
> image
> slightly and in a matter of a few minutes your printer produces a super 
> nice
> looking print!  Quicker than I can type this!
> 
> And some folks still want to screw around with shooting film, take it to 
> the
> colour lab, pick-it up the next day or next week or depending on type of
> film mess around in a darkroom for several hours, wait for film to dry,
> edit, film in enlarger, make print in more solutions,  wash print for an
> hour, dry by whatever method, spot and then finally hold it up some hours
> later and ... "Oh sh....!"  :-( I better make another! OOPS!
> 
> Naw some how moving with the technical times of the day can be and are
> beneficial. But it still comes down to each his own in how one prefers to
> make prints and or film use.
> 
> And as I mentioned the other day about my GUNG HO grandson using film, he
> loves it! Even if he scans his negs and slides into the computer to do
> whatever it is he is doing, he considers a sort of "best of both worlds!" 
> By
> the same token he is quite awesome shooting and printing digital images
> also!
> 
> cheers,
> ted.
> 
> 
> 
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