[Leica] 8 or 8.2

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Douglas said...
<quote>

That's why I'm setting up my own darkroom so maybe I won't be
so reluctant to rip up my own output in future.

</quote>

Don't you believe it...One of the most important darkroom accessories is 
a large waste bin.  Once you start making your own prints, you will get 
through paper like nobody's business.  It's great fun, but can be very 
frustrating too.

Since I had my M8, I have hardly used my darkroom.  In fact I don't even 
print LF any more, preferring to scan the negatives and work on the 
scans digitally.

My film Ms are being replaced with another M8 body on the basis that it 
will get used.  Since I've had my M8, it has been used for the vast 
majority of my photography.  I did put a roll in my M6 TTL before 
Christmas.  On Friday I took the film out of the camera so I could box 
it up.  I had taken 15 shots on it.  Like Tina I have rolls of film 
around the house that I haven't developed yet and to be honest, I 
probably won't get around to developing them.

As far as my darkroom is concerned, I think that its days are numbered. 
  When it goes it will be a sad day, but if I can sell the kit, then I 
can put the money towards something like an 18mm Super Elmar.



Mark Pope,
Swindon, Wilts
UK

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Douglas Barry wrote:
> 
> "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote
> 
>> We hear about the guy who has 60 cameras now but we don't here about 
>> the guy
>> who has 60 prints.
>> If someone in town here said to me they had 60 prints I'd say to them;
>> Edit them down to 25 and we'll meet and have coffee I'll bring as many
>> myself!! We'll pour SWEET AND LOW on them make the crunchy!
>> Brown tone a few with residual coffee grinds.
>>
>> 60 prints, in this case one print per camera, would be too much to drag
>> around from Starbucks to Starbucks;
> 
> Well Mark, I actually do have about 30 16 x12 prints as they're images 
> I've entered in club competitions. Some I should tear up, some I'm happy 
> with, but find it hard to rip up something that I've paid to get 
> printed! That's why I'm setting up my own darkroom so maybe I won't be 
> so reluctant to rip up my own output in future. I'm still shooting and 
> hunting for perfection but I don't use the 60 cameras.
> 
> I've just accumulated a lot of them as I find it hard to say No to 
> buying them at the low prices these days, and I also like the mechanical 
> sensuousness of holding older cameras. Mind you, I do also lend them out 
> to digibound others so that they can try to ease back on the "shoot away 
> & delete later" syndrome and savour planning the captured moment. A lot 
> of people who have just got into photography through digital are buying 
> older film cameras now. Just have a look at some of the special interest 
> groups on Flickr and the like.
> 
> Oh, and I hope the Starbucks over there is better than the crappy mass 
> market Starbucks we have over here in Ireland. There's one across the 
> street from my work but I walk past it to go to the independent opposition!
> 
> Douglas
> _________
> Douglas Barry
> Bray, Co. Wicklow
> Republic of Ireland
> 
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