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Subject: [Leica] Chinese Lantern Festival
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 22:00:58 +0100
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The "je ne sais quoi" i.e. "I DK what" is in my eyes synonymous with 
"unpredictability" ;-)

I love life because of this particular feature, and film as much I guess

Amities
Philippe


Le 3 d?c. 2016 ? 21:57, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> a ?crit :

> I started shooting Kodachrome in 1959 with a Graphic 35 (the one with 
> pushbutton focusing) on a teenager?s budget.  $0.16/slide (or $0.19 with 
> the 20-exp rolls). How well I remember having waaaaay more subjects than 
> frames! Vive le photographie num?rique!
> 
> But especially with B&W, film has that je ne sais quoi...
> 
> ?howard
> 
> 
>> On Dec 3, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> The hard part was deciding what NOT to shoot.<<<<<  Howard.
>> Hi Howard,
>> I can't imagine being assigned to shoot this and arrive with a couple of 
>> rolls of colour and 20 rolls of B&W? Today of course with digital, it 
>> wouldn't matter. As you could just shoot everything that turned on your 
>> imagination without a worried moment about running out of film? :-)
>> Oh I re-call times when I  came to the end of a 36 exposure roll, take it 
>> out and into the exposed roll pouch of the Photo vest. Then reach into 
>> the unexposed pouch to find I only had one roll left! :-( Such a 
>> sickening feeling as you felt there were still hundreds of images to 
>> shoot! 
>> OH! I do love digital, if for nothing else but the cards seem to be 
>> endless in number of frames! And if you fill one, take it out, reach in 
>> pocket and you have this little card, pop it in camera and yer good to go 
>> for another thousand frames! :-)
>> You smile and start clicking away without a thought. But looking for more 
>> beautiful images. YAHOO!!!!!!!
>> cheers,
>> Dr. Ted  :-) 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Howard L Ritter Jr
>> Sent: December-03-16 9:30 AM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Chinese Lantern Festival
>> 
>> LUGgers figuring Dr Ted has lost his mind?
>> Not on my watch! ?
>> But I just might try converting a few to B&W...
>> 
>> But you?re right about the complexity and colo(u)rs. The hard part was 
>> deciding what NOT to shoot.
>> 
>> ?howard
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 3, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Howard,
>>> Well now that's just a beautiful event to "SHOOT IN COLOUR" I'm sure one 
>>> could click away there for hours and not shoot the same image twice.
>>> If I were to say anything about shooting in B&W the CREW would surely 
>>> figure I'd completely lost my mind! Rather than knowing I've only lost 
>>> half of it?:-) 
>>> cheers,
>>> Dr. ted :-) 
>> 
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