[Leica] An observation

[sethrosner at direcway.com (Seth Rosner)]

Feli, they will be making Tri-X forever - plus 21 years plus a life in being 
en ventre de sa mere (for those lawyers among us who recall with horror 
learning the infamous Rule against Perpetuities)!

Seth            LaK 9
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Feli di Giorgio" <feli2@earthlink.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] An observation


>
> On Nov 10, 2004, at 8:09 PM, Jeffrey Lu wrote:
>
>> The other day, in an nocturnal emergency, I ran into a local store 
>> looking for 120 hp5+...i saw almost no film out in the open (just a 
>> couple rolls of consumer colour neg) so I asked the proprietor if she 
>> carried any roll film.  She led me to a dorm-room fridge; there were a 
>> few rolls of tmax 100.  That's it.  And it was well past the exp date. I 
>> hope that means she just sold all her tri-x, fp4+, hp5+, apx 100 etc. 
>> that day and was left with the stuff nobody wants.  But I get the feeling 
>> that she WAS left with the stuff nobody wants, and not because there was 
>> a big influx of roll film buyers that day.
>>
>> Jeff
>
>
> Ok, I hate to admit it, but I'm going to do it anyway.
>
> I really like shooting color film. I prefer the dynamic range print film 
> has over digital and the fact
> that it doesn't look 'plastic'.
>
> BUT, I have been completely spoiled by the color accuracy of digital 
> color, especially under
> changing light sources. Auto white balance is a gift from heaven or at 
> least Japan. What I do
> greatly dislike about digital is the Bayer pattern smear. If there was a 
> full frame, 10 megapixel
> FOVEON type camera out there I would be a very happy man. If then someone 
> could figure out
> how to give me the dynamic range of print film, I would have very little 
> reason to shoot anything
> else for color work. I'm curious to see how the new Fuji S3 turns out. It 
> uses a unique type of chip that
> has a separate set of receptors for the highlights. I saw a few test 
> frames and it looked impressive.
>
> Black and white is a whole different story... as long as they keep making 
> Tri-X, nobody gets hurt.
>
> Feli
>
>
>
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