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Subject: [Leica] Problem with the M9
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 12:47:13 +0100
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Dumped quite a few that might have been useful had the tools been available 
:-)

Ph


> Le 5 janv. 2017 ? 12:41, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> a ?crit :
> 
> How much post processing did you do on transparency film?
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Philippe hi! always delighted to be in agreement.
> To split hairs "post processing" is what?
> Its processing isn't it? We're making the picture.
> Its not something that's happening later is it?
> Afterwards we email it or print it.  To me that's post.
> "Post" to me means "after the fact" but what do I know?
> 
> I may think that because I think people think processing the pictures, 
> Photoshop or Lightroom work is like some extra special thing you don't 
> really need to do. Like in the old days when we brought our film to the 
> drug store and they made snap shots for us.
> Who needs a darkroom I got Walgreens?
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/5/17 4:03 AM, "Philippe" <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 46 years after I developed my first BW film, I totally concur. 
> 
> Post
>> processing is a taste enhancer without which I at least, would end up 
>> with so much less sapid photographs.
> 
> And I?m happy like a painter or a cook to have
>> such a palette and variety of tools available.
> 
> Amities
> Philippe
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Le 5
>> janv. 2017 ? 09:42, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> a ?crit :
>> 
>> Well
>> Ted! I think it works like you go in the darkroom and you try to make 
>> the thing look like it looked and it comes out in the end not quite 
>> what you
>> 
>> expected but you like it better anyway. We do the best we can.
>> I don't know
>> about you but some of my better pictures come from tricky negatives 
>> which were not so easy to print. You're coming out with something you 
>> don't quite expect.  But it all works at great in the end. Pretty soon 
>> I forget what the thing was really supposed to look like. Or what plan 
>> A was.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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