[Leica] Is film making a comeback?

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Dan Khong offered:
Subject: [Leica] Is film making a comeback?


> Friends
>
> Many years ago, lots of folks who enjoyed talking about Leica cameras,
> signature of various lenses and the attributes of the many films 
> available,
> jettisoned their film equipment and then joined the bandwagon that echoed,
> "Film is dead!"
>
> Today, we can still get film AND many old film cameras are holding their
> prices. I am seeing young people toting film cameras. Hand phone cameras 
> in
> one hand and film cameras in the other.
>
> Is it possible that film is not that dead but is actually making a 
> comeback?

Hi Dan,
I gave my last Leica film camera, an M6 and a couple of lenses to my 
grandson for graduating from the local photo academy a couple of years ago. 
And like you said, "he has a Leica on his shoulder with B&W film and in his 
pocket some model of phone/camera."

And he uses both, sometimes getting a better result on the iphone gizmo! :-) 
But rarely as he carries the Leica evry where he goes.  And is constantly 
using it!

He has the film developed at a local lab and contacts made. Then he makes 
computer prints on my machine! And he knocks off a half dozen rolls a week 
just shooting things he finds interesting and photogenic.

I'd say much like most of us started. As hard as it is for some folks to 
acquire film, I think it will come back the same as B&W came back in the 
early '80's and has continued to grow, slowly mind you. But it will come 
back as  main stream photography as many of the younger crowd want to try 
it. And ad agencies realize the power of the B&W image in many and certain 
images!

cheers,
ted