Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/15

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Subject: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:25:58 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-GYA-TnC=rVhuSgU7gAwuFZ_A8RxTofGnVgC2wZDM1MzA@mail.gmail.com> <CB619866.1A555%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark, if you notice, most of the frequent posters on LUG are actually
shooters and post quite a bit. Even the ones arguing how many angels can
dance on the Leica red dot.

And occasionally we may have a collector or two, but you know, live and let
live.

I think you are criticising some other forums :-)

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> Unfortuanly people see the thread title and think that medium format film
> production could all of a sudden somehow be in danger when all it is
> generalized eBayitus.
> We need to get our eyes off the eBay screen and on our own photographic
> work. Is the volume of film cameras traded back and forth on eBay higher or
> lower now with almost no work being done with them and they are reduced to
> collectors pieces? I could care less. If it was I'm sure medium format
> which
> represents a very small percentage of that would be very very low as well.
> For every 100,000 35mm cameras made a MF camera was made. If that.
> The amount of serious photography nowadays done with film is way smaller
> than any of those historic percentages. And amounts to nothing of any
> consequence.
>
> --
> Mark R.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/
>
>
> > From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:12:31 -0800
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film?
> >
> > I'm noticing a lot of Mamiya 6 and &/7II have been come onto the market
> in
> > the last few weeks. Usually there's one or two being advertised about
> once
> > every month, but now it seems that one every few days.
> >
> > My guess is that the lure of the digital and the improvement in quality
> is
> > finally convincing people to let them go...
> >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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