[Leica] Chinese Lantern Festival

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

I started shooting Kodachrome in 1959 with a Graphic 35 (the one with pushbutton focusing) on a teenager’s budget.  $0.16/slide (or $0.19 with the 20-exp rolls). How well I remember having waaaaay more subjects than frames! Vive le photographie numérique!

But especially with B&W, film has that je ne sais quoi...

—howard


> On Dec 3, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>>>> The hard part was deciding what NOT to shoot.<<<<<  Howard.
> Hi Howard,
> I can't imagine being assigned to shoot this and arrive with a couple of rolls of colour and 20 rolls of B&W? Today of course with digital, it wouldn't matter. As you could just shoot everything that turned on your imagination without a worried moment about running out of film? :-)
> Oh I re-call times when I  came to the end of a 36 exposure roll, take it out and into the exposed roll pouch of the Photo vest. Then reach into the unexposed pouch to find I only had one roll left! :-( Such a sickening feeling as you felt there were still hundreds of images to shoot! 
> OH! I do love digital, if for nothing else but the cards seem to be endless in number of frames! And if you fill one, take it out, reach in pocket and you have this little card, pop it in camera and yer good to go for another thousand frames! :-)
> You smile and start clicking away without a thought. But looking for more beautiful images. YAHOO!!!!!!!
> cheers,
> Dr. Ted  :-) 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Howard L Ritter Jr
> Sent: December-03-16 9:30 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Chinese Lantern Festival
> 
> LUGgers figuring Dr Ted has lost his mind?
> Not on my watch! 😉
> But I just might try converting a few to B&W...
> 
> But you’re right about the complexity and colo(u)rs. The hard part was deciding what NOT to shoot.
> 
> —howard
> 
> 
>> On Dec 3, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Howard,
>> Well now that's just a beautiful event to "SHOOT IN COLOUR" I'm sure one could click away there for hours and not shoot the same image twice.
>> If I were to say anything about shooting in B&W the CREW would surely figure I'd completely lost my mind! Rather than knowing I've only lost half of it?:-) 
>> cheers,
>> Dr. ted :-) 
> 
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