Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sent from my iPhone Steve Barbour On Aug 24, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote: My problem was not so much that film was dying off? It was the availability of chemicals. A perfect storm of (1) post 911 restrictions on chemicals in the mail, (2) the demise of local brick and mortar stores post-Katrina, and (3) my college deciding that it was unlawful for me to receive mail at the school what, a faculty made up of hermits isolated from the world? put a damper on my souping of films. Jeffery On Aug 24, 2013, at 5:07 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > I would not say comeback in the sense that it will ever become mainstream > again. It will not die out completely, just as vinyl records are still > around, but it will remain a niche product for aficionados. Some of those > will be young, artistic types, yes. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 24, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Dan Khong wrote: > >> 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? >> >> Dan K >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information