Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Feli, they will be making Tri-X forever - plus 21 years plus a life in being en ventre de sa mere (for those lawyers among us who recall with horror learning the infamous Rule against Perpetuities)! Seth LaK 9 . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Feli di Giorgio" <feli2@earthlink.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] An observation > > On Nov 10, 2004, at 8:09 PM, Jeffrey Lu wrote: > >> The other day, in an nocturnal emergency, I ran into a local store >> looking for 120 hp5+...i saw almost no film out in the open (just a >> couple rolls of consumer colour neg) so I asked the proprietor if she >> carried any roll film. She led me to a dorm-room fridge; there were a >> few rolls of tmax 100. That's it. And it was well past the exp date. I >> hope that means she just sold all her tri-x, fp4+, hp5+, apx 100 etc. >> that day and was left with the stuff nobody wants. But I get the feeling >> that she WAS left with the stuff nobody wants, and not because there was >> a big influx of roll film buyers that day. >> >> Jeff > > > Ok, I hate to admit it, but I'm going to do it anyway. > > I really like shooting color film. I prefer the dynamic range print film > has over digital and the fact > that it doesn't look 'plastic'. > > BUT, I have been completely spoiled by the color accuracy of digital > color, especially under > changing light sources. Auto white balance is a gift from heaven or at > least Japan. What I do > greatly dislike about digital is the Bayer pattern smear. If there was a > full frame, 10 megapixel > FOVEON type camera out there I would be a very happy man. If then someone > could figure out > how to give me the dynamic range of print film, I would have very little > reason to shoot anything > else for color work. I'm curious to see how the new Fuji S3 turns out. It > uses a unique type of chip that > has a separate set of receptors for the highlights. I saw a few test > frames and it looked impressive. > > Black and white is a whole different story... as long as they keep making > Tri-X, nobody gets hurt. > > Feli > > > > _______________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information