[Leica] three questions: C41 b/w film; Mamiya DM22; why no US version of GF1 w 20mm kit?

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

Raaaaabbbss:

<<you're spending huge time and
effort and money getting just the right lens cap and neck strap from that
guy you know in Switzerland And just the right lens and camera not the
obvious choice but the exquisite over the top cash value low tech choice.>>>

WTF you talking about bro?

I never paid more than $400 for a camera (G!, used, with lens) and never
more than $250 for a lens including my Leica's and I buy filters and caps
from B&H used desk for $2 and I never bought no strap.

So again, I axe you: who do you think you're addressing?

I took my first rolls of Tri X to a beautiful eco-friendly pro lab near 23rd
st for $17 a roll but I realized until I'm taking pictures good enough to
desrve that treatment it's a pretense to be going to that lab. Like a cop
buying Alden's to walk the beat.

So, once again, the cloud are rent, and on this day of the Passover of the
Lord, God doth say: Lighten Up Dude.

V

I put some Rotinol on my door just in case.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> > Rabs:
> > Consider the amateur. The acolyte. Consider apartment life. Full time
> > teaching. Plus writing. Plus child. No time. No money.
> >
> > Yeah, ideal world and some day and all i want a. to learn how to do it,
> and
> > get better at it; and b. to have a darkroom to do it iin.
> >
> > Until then: you saw what the B&H pro lab did to that image I showed you.
> > That was at $13 a roll to process and put on disk and they fucked up
> both. A
> > not uncommon thing.
> >
> > I'd rather have CVS fuck it up for $6 a roll.
> >
> > Also I saw some lab in Kansas that looked good charging $7 a roll. By
> looked
> > good I mean their marketing used language that made one think they worked
> > with professionals and know what they're doing.
> >
> > Anyone know the name of that place? I seem to have lost the bookmark.
> >
> > Vince
>
> You guys are amateurs In avocation mode but you're spending huge time and
> effort and money getting just the right lens cap and neck strap from that
> guy you know in Switzerland And just the right lens and camera not the
> obvious choice but the exquisite over the top cash value low tech choice.
> To then bring the stuff you shoot with it into Walgreens is a joke.
> And not  un intentional. There's some real aggression being expressed.
> How much effort would require lifting ones figure and using these tools in
> the manner in which they deserve?
> B&H is not a pro lab by the way did you think it was?
> B&H is a camera store.
> Do serious amateurs and pros  bring their film into a camrea store?
> Not the ones I used to know before the internet they didn't.
>
> I was not out of college when I stopped bringing my film into camera
> stores.
> Places I've dealt with are Duggal and Modernage, CRC Color Resource Center,
> Inc. 22/5-6 next to Calumet.
> They've not given me back a stain instead of film.
> Fotorush Digital I've got some ok back from not quite a pro lab and it may
> depend on which outlet.
>
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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