Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Film Again!
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:15:06 +0200
References: <CAO-xSJgTSz5RPvFJB_jrMf4b437XvY0W_dmipcG8TCaxMvYpBg@mail.gmail.com>

I grant you, a MF slide projected is a thing of beauty, perhaps unsurpassed. 
I was speaking from the point of view of a print or web image.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA



On Oct 26, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Jan Decher wrote:

> Nathan:
> 
> I think your statement is definitely not true for analog-projected medium
> format chromes. This is hard to demonstrate online.  You would have to come
> to my house and I will show you some 6x6 and 6x4.5 slides taken with
> Rolleiflex SL66 and Contax 645 in the last 10 years and projected with a 45
> year old Rollei P11 projector.
> I could imagine a Leica color 35mm slide projected with a state-of the-art
> Pradovit might also take on this challenge.
> Jan
> 
> ==================================
> From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:27:46 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Film Again!
> Nice, Jim, but frankly speaking, I think color film is a waste of time.
> Those pictures have nothing that your digital images do not do better. I
> think the film niche is in monochrome. I do not expect to shoot a roll of
> color film again, ever.
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
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In reply to: Message from wanderjan at gmail.com (Jan Decher) ([Leica] IMG: Film Again!)