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Subject: [Leica] Quick question for any M5 shooters
From: scottgregory at mac.com (Scott Gregory)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 14:59:30 -0400
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B.D.
I have to say I?ve
Been really enjoying yourself your work with film black and white. I know 
it?s crazy but I swear it appears to be different than digital black and 
white when I see your shots online. Maybe it just has to do with perhaps 
some extra care?  I know it?s crazy but???

Scott

> On Apr 28, 2018, at 2:47 PM, B. D. COLEN <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Lluis! Yes, I love seeing your images on Facebook and Instagram. I 
> must say I never understood the attraction of the Monochrome - not that I 
> could afford one if I did understand the attraction :-). But to me, the 
> best thing about digital is that one captures in color - yes, I know that 
> the sensor sees in black and white and adds the color, and one has the 
> option from image to image to change ISO, decide the image should be black 
> and white, color, or whatever. And of course, pixels are free. But I 
> heartily agree with you that as good as digital images processed as black 
> and white can be, they are NOT silver images. My daughter, who has grown 
> up to be the Associate Director of the Howard Greenberg Gallery, in NYC, 
> has for two decades been saying to me, ?It?s nice, Daddy, but it?s not the 
> same as silver.? Film as a depth and solidity that black and white digital 
> lacks. None of which is to say that I will stop shooting digital. I love 
> my various Fujis and the results I get from them. But I am glad I made the 
> leap and grabbed this shockingly well preserved three-lug M5, and I am 
> finding with every roll that I?m getting back into the Leica rhythm - and 
> focusing. Now to get a bulk loader, 100 feet of HP5 - which makes it 
> affordable again, and chemicals for developing.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for the welcome back.You?ve long been setting an example 
> for the rest of us.
> 
> B. D.
> 
> On April 28, 2018 at 2:29:40 PM, Ripoll via LUG Lluis (lug at 
> leica-users.org) wrote:
> 
> Hi BD!
> 
> I?m very happy to meet you again here, even if we have never lost the 
> contact in Facebook and Instagram here is a better place to meet friends.
> 
> I?m happy too to see you are back with film, me too, I?ce realised that 
> film B&W is not the same as digital, even with the Monochrom (even I?m 
> considering to sell it!). I?ve never tried your suggested software, but my 
> decision to come back to film was after I?ve prepared my Silver Gelatin 
> prints for my exhibition in Tamarkin in Chicago, IMHO this made the real 
> big difference.
> 
> Cheers!
> Lluis
> 
> 
>> El 28 abr 2018, a les 16:20, B. D. COLEN <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> va 
>> escriure:
>> 
>> Howdy all - Having returned to shooting a film M, I find myself with a 
>> DUH question: Are there any M5 shooters here, and if so, can anyone tell 
>> me the trick for framing vaguely accurately using a 21 mm finder in the 
>> M5 shoe, given how far off center it is?  
>> 
>> Thanks much
>> 
>> The photographer formerly known as Dr. Blacktape
>> 
>> B. D. Colen
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