Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome back, Ken. I wondered what happened to you. You kinda disappeared shortly after taking your new position. Len On Jan 8, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Kenneth Frazier wrote: > > 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 > > ------------------------------------- > The Rev. Kenneth Frazier > Senior Minister > First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ > Waterbury, Connecticut > pastorfcchurch@comcast.net > kennybod@mac.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information