Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nathan,
I don?t think it irrational at all to shoot the occasional roll of film -
especially B&W. I do that once a year with my Children and Grandkids. I haul
out my M4 and 50mm Summilux and my Nikon F2AS and the 50mm f1.4 and fire
away. The last time I did this Miss O asked to see the pictures right away
on the back of the camera. A child of the digital age! I get the films
developed and a photo CD scanned. Then I file the negatives and CD away -
clearly marked with family subjects, place and date.
I figure - in 50 years - when all my DVDs and photo CDs and portable hard
drives are unreadable - Miss O will still be able to get images out of those
negatives to show her grandchildren when she was little.
Bests
Howard
PS: Nice pix BTW!
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
To: lug Group <lug at leica-users.org>, Olympus Camera Discussion
<olympus at thomasclausen.net>
Subject: [Leica] IMG: my offspring on Tri-X
Totally irrationally, I still shoot the occasional roll of 35mm film; and
last weekend in London, I finished a roll of Tri-X in my Bessa R2M. Tri-X
and a collapsible 50mm Summicron from the early 1950s?doesn?t get much more
classical that this!
Despite the excellence of my digital cameras, film still has something ?je
ne sais quoi?. While my wife was raiding Oxford Street last Sunday, the
children and I escaped to a pub in a side street. Both of these images were
taken wide open and at slowish shutter speeds:
The first-born:
http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Sometimes-I-use-film/7590141_5KmXsg#!i=3931714632&k=CjCZfFS&lb=1&s=O
The No. 1 Daughter:
http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Sometimes-I-use-film/7590141_5KmXsg#!i=3931714642&k=3cGN7Fp&lb=1&s=O
Cheers,
Nathan