[Leica] query from new subscriber

[kennybod at mac.com (Kenneth Frazier)]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:16 PM, Brian Reid wrote:

>> How many photographers -- serious and otherwise -- still use M2 or  
>> similar cameras?
>> Who develops the film?
>> Is it about using film and then digitizing the images, or what?
>
> What do you have to say to him? He's listening.


Hey, LUGer's!

I'm alive and well:

I'll stop lurking and break silence.  (I'm still around, folks, just  
overwhelmed with work, family, etc.)

To our listener:

I use my M3 and IIIf regularly, as much as any other camera,  
generally only C41 films, have them developed only, cut and sleeved  
at a Ritz Camera shop, sometimes at Wal-Mart because it is so  
inexpensive, scan them with a Nikon 35mm scanner.

(Right now, I have about 3 dozen rolls I haven't had time to scan.)

I use them because they produce consistently excellent results, I  
don't need to worry about batteries or bad weather or, perish the  
thought, an occasional bump.  And, I have the pleasure of shooting  
and exposing the way I want to, not the way the camera tells me I  
ought to.

I'm getting ready to set up my darkroom, likely within the next  
month, so I'll go back to "true" b&w films, at least for some of my  
shooting.

Peace to all,

Ken

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The Rev. Kenneth Frazier
Senior Minister
First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
Waterbury, Connecticut
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