[Leica] IMGs: For love of the black and white photography of Edward Weston, Minor White and W. Eugene Smith

Tina Manley tmanley at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 12:14:22 PDT 2014


My exact thinking!!

The Monochrom is like a return to my days of film Leicas and worth every
penny I paid for it.  I love thinking in B&W!!

Tina


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:40 PM, George Lottermoser <
george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:

>
> On Sep 10, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Montie wrote:
>
> > Reading at the edge pano...superb IMO.
> >
> > Tech quality/tonality also excellent,
> > would have to view actual prints before
> > deciding if it's 7K excellent!  ;-)
> >
> > Montie
> >
> >>> c & c always welcome and appreciated
> >
> > <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=9177>
>
> Thanks for looking and your kind comments Montie.
>
> This one cost $6K
> If 35mm film and processing runs about $10/roll
> Not including scanning time
> that's about 600 rolls of film.
>
> A few rolls a week x 2 years
> No scanning time.
>
> Seems to be holding its resale value extremely well.
> So may actually more rightfully come down to $ 0.50 a roll
> Depending on how many frames and when its sold.
> ;~)
>
> Though at this point in my life it really comes down to:
> will this tool provide both the pleasure
> and the results that I want to achieve?
>
> So far feels like an easy, "Yes."
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
>
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
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