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Subject: [Leica] was Nikon film cameras now 1927 negatives
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Jan 12 11:18:08 2006

But Don, if you feel the way you do, why would you possibly consider moving
to the dMI? All it will be is a another digital body, albeit a rangefinder
that takes M lenses. But it won't do anything to eliminate about what you
perceive as digital's lack of impermanence.


On 1/12/06 2:06 PM, "SonC@aol.com" <SonC@aol.com> wrote:

> I rest Don's Case!
> 
> http://www.nsula.edu/watson_library/1927/
> 
> Regards, 
>  
> Sonny
> 
> 
> 
> In a message dated 1/12/2006 12:50:44 P.M. Central  Standard Time,
> don.dory@gmail.com writes:
> The second example is a roll of 6X9  negatives that my grandmother had kept
> from her mothers family.  They  were images from just before to just after
> the 1927 flood on the  Mississippi.  The just before images show boats on 
> the
> river at the very  top of the levee, possibly fifty feet above flood stage 
> at
> that  location.  The following images are of ten feet of water as far as  
> the
> eye can see lapping at the porch of the plantation house. (When that  house
> was built they respected the river and built anything of real  importance 
> way
> above ground)
> 
> Today, those images will be at best on a  hard drive in some landfill.  
> Like
> Sonny, I am shooting film and  labeling negatives.  When I move to the dM I
> will have to print far more  than I do now.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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