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Subject: [Leica] Use of Film, Leicas Cause Ex-LUG-ger to Post Again
From: bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)
Date: Thu Mar 16 03:48:55 2006
References: <39b082feda6b2bdf322771db2737320b@depaul.edu>

Photos 1 and 3 are stunning. 1 for the colour, angle ......... eye- 
drawing impact. 2 for the quality of image, composition and subject.

Welcome back.

B.

On 16-mrt-2006, at 0:30, bob palmieri wrote:

> Y'all -
>
> I've been off the LUG since last summer, when I had the experience  
> of traveling around the Northeastern USA with a number of different  
> things to shoot.  I carried my 20D with four lenses and my M6, also  
> with four lenses.
> Try as I did, I couldn't seem to shoot a single frame of film for  
> the entire week long trip.  I figured my favorite film rigs were  
> history.
>
> Recently, however, I've found myself shooting Leicas with Film and  
> feeling pretty good about the experience.  Here are some examples...
>
> In this shot of a labor rally here in Chicago, the 15mm  
> Voightlander and a CL loaded with Fuji (low contrast 4-layer  
> portrait film) seemed ideal for dealing with wildly mixed light and  
> close quarters (the vignetting is kinda cool, too):
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/stroger_labor_rally_21
>
> In this early morning low angle sunlight streetshot in Brooklyn I  
> felt that the ability of the Kodak 400CN to deal with a very wide  
> lighting ratio without burning out the highlights was helpful (M6 w/ 
> 50mm collapsible Summicron):
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/99_cent_3600_med_cntrst
>
> And this interior snap (M6, 21CV on Neopan in T-Max) also seems to  
> hold detail across a wide range of brightnesses with that familiar  
> grainy texture:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/Excercise_Program_1
>
> On the other hand, this 20D shot (in the alley behind a fancy  
> restaurant in downtown Chicago) kinda looks to me like it might  
> have looked a little better if I had used one of those film rigs:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album389/alley_soccer_52_b_w_jpeg
>
> 'Course, the DSLR has been a great tool in a whole lot of other  
> situations in the studio and out shooting live music... although  
> come to think about it there was one time when the damn clack &  
> whirr of the peskey thing prevented me from shooting at all during  
> a recital of 20th century piano music.
>
> So, count me in as one of those who hopes that enough of these  
> archaic tools and materials stick around for awhile...  'Meantime,  
> I'm sure the digiworld will be catching up with the need for quiet,  
> small cameras with optical viewfinders and wide dynamic range  
> sensors (I'm sure the "grain simulators" will be improving as well.)
>
> Comments, of course, are welcome, I think...
>
> Bob Palmieri
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from rpalmier at depaul.edu (bob palmieri) ([Leica] Use of Film, Leicas Cause Ex-LUG-ger to Post Again)