Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you'll like the experience Herbert! Its really great to see ones work. And for others too as well. On 7/7/13 5:46 PM, "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > > > Mark, > > 1. I'd have to work up the ambition to paw through boxes (many) of stored > prints. 2. I'd have to see if the scanner in my cheap HP all-in-one > printer is > good enough. > > Will think about it. > > Regards, > > Herb > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > On Jul 7, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> Herbert naturally it would be good to actually see some of your black and >> white prints vs. Kodachrome vs. digital so we can agree with your or not >> agree with you on their relative merits and how you dealt with them. As in >> if you can print. Words about pictures kind of only go so far. Give us a >> url. >> >> >> On 7/7/13 4:43 AM, "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org> wrote: >> >>> Since Jayanand got auto-biographical, I thought I'd do the same. >>> >>> I started developing film and making contact prints at high-school age if >>> not >>> before. I think my first exposure to Kodachrome was around 1948 when my >>> wife, >>> a friend, and I made a trip from Chicago to a series of national parks. >>> The >>> friend had a borrowed Leica (F, I think) and 50, 90, and 135 mm lenses. I >>> was >>> hooked. He and I alternated possession of the slides every six months, >>> and >>> projecting those incredible slides repeatedly brought back vivid >>> memories of >>> the trip. >>> >>> Eventually, I bought an Omega enlarger and started getting serious about >>> B&W. >>> Never was particularly pleased with any of my prints, and the majority >>> of my >>> shots were still Kodachrome. Around 1971, temporary unemployment which >>> in a >>> recession promised to possibly last a year, caused me to accept a job, >>> relocation expenses provided, with ICL in England. To my annoyance, I >>> found >>> that Kodak UK was on strike, that a million rolls of Kodachrome was in >>> their >>> premises waiting to be processed, and that the nearest place to get the >>> stuff >>> processed was in France. I decided then and there that this was a good >>> opportunity to try to develop some skill at B&W. >>> >>> I had not brought my enlarger to England, so I joined a camera club in >>> order >>> to use their darkroom. It turned out that the hours of availability did >>> not >>> suit me and I bought an inexpensive Opemus enlarger. But I stayed with >>> the >>> club, which had monthly competitions, sometimes prints, sometimes >>> slides. In >>> time, I even wound up with prints that I was proud of. An interesting >>> aside >>> comment is that they expected 16 x 20 prints but I managed to get by >>> with 11 >>> x >>> 14. 8 x 10 would have been totally unacceptable except for one time when >>> the >>> had a competition expressly for "small" prints. What amused me was that >>> in >>> this country, where people had little money, big prints were expected; >>> when >>> I >>> got back this relatively richer country, I saw competitions just full of >>> 8 x >>> 10 prints an smaller. >>> >>> One day, I decided it would be neat to prints some of my slides, so I >>> bought >>> a >>> color head for my Omega. I first tried the Ilford process because it was >>> reputed to be the most archival. I ultimately came to grief with it when >>> I >>> tried to print a picture of my Abyssinian cat, a mountain lion colored >>> critter. He'd come out greenish or reddish; no way could I get his true >>> color. >>> I switched to a Kodak reversal paper and got a perfect print on the first >>> try. >>> >>> In time, I realized that if prints were my objective, color negs were >>> obviously the way to go, and I switched my operation to developing color >>> negs >>> and printing them. For color balance, I just used very crude tools: the >>> Kodak >>> viewing filters, and usually got a good print on at worst my second try. >>> Very >>> rarely did it take three tries. >>> >>> Alas, a few years after acquiring my pride and joy, an M6 TTL which I've >>> got >>> to get around to selling one of these days, I just burned out on darkroom >>> work, and several rolls of film are still sitting around unprocessed. I >>> might >>> in time have gone back to the darkroom, but my wife decided that we >>> needed a >>> second bathroom, and there went the darkroom. I gave away the equipment. >>> >>> Having spent too many hours of my life in front of a computer, both >>> professionally and for entertainment, I was very reluctant to get into >>> digital >>> photography. Ultimately, I decided I had to find out if I could live with >>> it, >>> so I bought a cheap Nikon point-and-shoot and Lightroom 2 and played >>> around >>> for a while. Having decided that I could live with it, I then thought >>> about >>> a >>> camera with a full-frame sensor. I was pondering Nikon or Canon but kept >>> wistfully remembering how much I enjoyed using the M6 and finally decided >>> that >>> at my age you can't take it with you and sprung for an M9 which I just >>> love. >>> I >>> use the two lenses, 35 an 90 chrons that I bought when I got the >>> second-hand >>> M6. They both were made in Canada, some time in the '70s. The 35 came >>> from a >>> dealer, the 90 was bought from Henning Wolfe. >>> >>> Herbert Kanner >>> kanner at acm.org >>> 650-326-8204 >>> >>> Question authority and the authorities will question you. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jul 6, 2013, at 11:25 PM, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> With Dr. Ted's famous quote used to sum it all up... >>>> http://www.the.me/b-d-colen-on-the-distraction-of-color-the-subject-is-blac >>>> k- >>>> and-white/#ixzz2YKfnZYo6 >>>> -- >>>> Jay, >>>> >>>> Jay Burleson Gallery <http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/> >>>> "A photographer is simply someone who is >>>> looking for something that can't be found. >>>> The photograph is the record of that attempt." >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/