[Leica] My M9 will travel to Wetzlar

[lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

Thank you Peter, I agree with you, in fact some days ago, before to have the 
problem, I?ve bought some B&W film. Beside the things you are pointing I 
want add some other considerations. I?ve realized that for me shooting 
digital is more stressing, why? simply because you don?t have the immediate 
?prove? our work, secondly I can say that I don?t know what?s happen but 
with film I shot less pics than digital, a certain process of reflexion is 
involved. 

You mention one point that I not share, you say that Digital is faster, IMHO 
I would add apparently, after a while I?m scanning and processing old 
negates in B&W, I can say - beside the problem of of cloning out dust spots, 
I hate too - that the post processing is at least for me much more faster in 
scanned film than digital, in other words I can get easily the B&W I want.

I can not say which is the best, this is a question of preferences, mines 
are more in favor of the B&W film than digital, and these days I?m enjoying 
carrying again my M with B&W film.

I see a certain trend of the digital users of last digital technology and 
the powerful new ?clinic? lenses, IMHO many of the pictures I see are based 
on the effects of the lens and technology than the image, this will probably 
produce in some years a total change of the preferences. As you say, people 
prefer the fine detail of digital than the grain. Of course I respect all 
the preferences and I want add another consideration. This evolution pro 
technological values makes also a big benefits to all the industry involved, 
is there some Marketing influencing throughout the images of actual great 
photographers the preferences. If we do an abstraction, would be in our days 
appreciated as it was the Alfred Eisenstaedt picture of the kiss in Times 
Square? Or we actually would have appreciated the same image isolated by the 
effect of a Nocti 0.95?

I ask myself such questions and the response is go everyone with his own 
preferences, 

Cheers!
Lluis

BTW.- The camera is already on the way to Wetzlar.
   


El 27/05/2014, a las 00:50, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> escribi?:

> Lluis:  Sorry you have to deal with this. But using your film cameras for 
> a while may be a good thing.  I shot a roll of Tri-X recently. It felt 
> like coming home, in a way.  It reminded me of things that I knew and 
> practiced most of my life, that tend to be different with digital.  B&W 
> film is beautiful in a very different way from digital. Digital is more 
> convenient, easier, faster more accurate, and has more fine detail than 
> fast film.  But highlights are better with film. Film grain is what the 
> image is made of, rather than digital noise, which is superimposed on the 
> image. You have less shots per "card."  You can't "chimp."  The whole way 
> you think about exposure is different.
> 
> All this made me think again about things that had become automatic.  This 
> is good to do now and then.
> 
> And yes, I *hate* cloning out dust spots.  :-)
> 
> --Peter
> 
> 
> > Tina, Scott, Jayanand, Gerry, Geoff
> >
> > Thank you very much for all your messages, tomorrow I will deliver the
> > camera to the Leica Spanish Dealer and wait?
> >
> > Tina: Thank you for your suggestion, the delay will be 4 weeks, I can 
> > resist
> > this period using again my film cameras
> >
> > Cheers
> > Lluis
> >
> > El 25/05/2014, a las 02:52, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> 
> > escribi?:
> >
> > > I'm so sorry, Lluis!  Ask Leica to send you a loaner while your's is 
> > > being
> > > fixed!
> > >
> > > Tina
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Lluis Ripoll <
> > > lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi my friends,
> > >>
> > >> A very rare problem has happen with my camera, without any accident, 
> > >> drop?
> > >> nothing, the sensor is un-fixed, consequently it moves inside the 
> > >> camera.
> > >> Even for Leica is a very rare problem, they tall me that this problem 
> > >> has
> > >> never happened?
> > >>
> > >> I have enough stock of pictures to work and or scan, I will continue
> > >> posting but as you can understand the two first days I?ve been really
> > >> angry!
> > >>
> > >> Saludos cordiales
> > >> Lluis
> 
> 
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