RE: [Leica] Slide mounts/scanner feeders/workflow

["Chandos Michael Brown" <cmbrow@wm.edu>]

Nathan,

I don't think that I managed to say quite what I meant.  I know that
film will be around, and I know that I'll continue to use it, but it is
perfectly clear that digital has significant advantages over film, and I
can see how *I* might benefit from these advantages; the shop in
Williamsburg where I have my film developed--a first rate lab--closed
recently.  At present, I'm not sure what I'm going to do--the
alternatives are so bad that I won't risk my negatives with them. I know
that I can process the stuff myself, but that's never been especially my
thing (and I've never attempted the C-22 chemistry).  I confront now
having to send film off to mail order labs, which I see as something of
a pain.

And, like you, my present collection of gear represents three decades of
buying, selling, trading, what have you.  All of it is "well loved," so
to speak, and, like you, I have never considered it an "investment" in
any sense; I own it because it helps me to capture the images that move
me.

Still, I can see now that the hybrid film/digital workflow is a kludge
in many respects, and it is, and has been, fascinating to see over the
past several years how digital has infiltrated and finally captured
significant elements of the LUG.

I intended my comment about Tina and the "death knell" of professionals
talking about the M to be tongue-in-cheek, but when one reflects that
for as long as I've been on this list, Tina has been a sort of "goddess"
of the Leica (I mean this in good humor and without irony) then it
strikes me as a noteworthy moment that she's announced her, dare I say
it, defection; or perhaps I can put it another way.  If the LUG once
worshiped a pantheon, we are moving quite rapidly toward monotheism.  

Chandos


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Nathan
Wajsman (private)
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 1:35 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Slide mounts/scanner feeders/workflow

Why, Chandos? So long as you can buy film, which is for a very long 
time, you do not have to care about what Tina or Ted or any other pro 
uses. That is the beauty of being an amateur--nobody is going to force 
you to go digital--it is purely your decision, not driven by deadlines, 
the need to email the picture to the editor 5 minutes after it was taken

etc.

I too have a substantial amount invested in Leica, but I do not care in 
the slightest what happens to its value. I mostly sell stuff when I want

to buy some other similar stuff, so as long as the prices go down more 
or less uniformly on all Leica M gear, I will be fine. The return I 
expect from my Leica investment is measured in images produced and the 
pleasure I derive from it, not money.

Nathan



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