[Leica] Back to film!

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

Lucky you, the idiot in charge of RFF kicked me off ... because I
pointed it out (that he was/is an idiot).

Two rolls of Kentmere 100 hanging up to dry at the this very moment
(from my IIIg, on topic).

Daniel

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Phil Forrest
<photo.forrest at earthlink.net> wrote:
> A few folks here are also members on RFF and may have followed a few of
> my threads there but I finally shuffled off the digital monkey a few
> days ago.
> I traded my M9 (which I had been trying to sell for a while) for a
> Nikon SP with titanium shutter and a good amount of cash. It was a good
> deal, I think. I got a *reliable* camera that is compatible with most
> of my lenses (I sold my Leica lenses and replaced them with RF Nikkors)
> and the new M9 owner got a camera he wanted. I still have my film M4, a
> beat up DR Summicron and my Super Angulon but I'm considering the sale
> of the latter to replace it with the 2.1cm Nikkor for the F mount with
> adapter. An excellent lens itself but much lower cost.
> I'm happy because I am no longer tethered to a wall socket to recharge
> batteries. Film doesn't have a slow buffer time. I can forget about my
> latent images on the roll for a while and not worry about filling up my
> limited storage media. It's just a good move. I'm not getting any photo
> business and I can't rationalize sitting on almost $5000 worth of
> camera that isn't making me money.
> It was kind of fun while it lasted even though the headaches of M9
> unreliability (and the M8 before it) drove me nuts. I should have sold
> it a year ago.
> It's good to be back to film. It feels rebellious, actually.
>
> Phil Forrest
>
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