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Subject: Re: [Leica] Film "died" for me this week
From: Ernest Nitka <enitka@twcny.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:26:56 -0500
References: <001501c3eb68$bf1de740$6401a8c0@CCA4A5EF37E11E>

That hotel is up in the mountains at one of the ski resorts the exact 
location escapes me at the moment

"Honey I'm Home"

ernie
On Feb 4, 2004, at 4:49 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Nice stuff, Ernie - I love "famous actor taunting my mother!" BTW -
> Isn't the Broadmore the "The Shinning" hotel?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Ernest
> Nitka
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:19 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Film "died" for me this week
>
>
> John - reread Rabiner's Rabid Redux :)  Found it interesting as you did
> - Mark I agree with much of what you have written about.  On the other
> hand I too have fallen under the spell of digital and present for
> amusement
>
> http://www.enitka.com/colorado.html
>
> taken with digital elph.   I still love my M but sometimes digital is
> ok.  The new leica digital is too much $.  The elph plus my Apple iBook
> are the same as the digilux.  I'll stick with my combo
>
> ernie
>
> enitka@twcny.rr.com
> Ernestnitka@aol.com
> www.enitka.com
> On Feb 4, 2004, at 9:07 AM, John Collier wrote:
>
>> Mark is one of the hidden gems of the LUG. At first as a new
>> subscriber to the Leica "equipment" list you do not understand where
>> he is coming from. You find yourself puzzling on what the heck he is
>> talking about. Then you suddenly realize he is, and only ever is,
>> talking about photography. Mountains of cold bright sliver and nebula
>> sized dye clouds firmly affixed to film and paper are what interests
>> him.
>>
>> It keeps me quiet for a while and has me only commenting on what I
>> know and wishing it was more than it is.
>>
>> John Collier
>>
>> On Feb 4, 2004, at 5:00 AM, sam wrote:
>>
>>> I almost skimmed & passed your post because it is long. I'm glad I
>>> read the whole thing through. It's going into my save box.
>>>
>>> Sam S
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>> This of course is a real pain in the ass thing to say on the Leica
>>>> Users
>>>> List but when this kind of post happens I wonder and my question
>>>> often has
>>>> been this in effect:
>>>> How much died?
>>>> Was he a great person with a great future? A great loss?
>>>> How tragic of a thing are we really talking about here?
>>>> Perhaps this person was slight and is finally being put to of a long
>
>>>> drawn
>>>> out misery.
>>>> We should cry a whole lot less maybe.
>>>> Are we having a big funeral for what lets face it had been a fairly
>>>> small
>>>> commitment in the first place? I hope not!
>>>> Had they been in their darkroom cranking out 16x20's every weekend
>>>> and now
>>>> they're ratcheting out even more exquisite reams of A3's instead as
>>>> they
>>>> answer their email?
>>>> Had they been shooting a brick of Kodachrome every week but now
>>>> wearing a
>>>> necklace of compact flash cards around their neck like dog tags?
>>>> When you see a post like this it strongly implies the PROCESS let
>>>> them down.
>>>> Has been proved mediocre.
>>>> The new one is taking over as it reigns supreme.
>>>> This implies strongly the strength in the new technology and the
>>>> weakness in
>>>> the old.
>>>> But when I ask if I get an answer it's amazingly often a sheepish
>>>> "No they'd
>>>> not really been using their cameras that much anyway for quite some
>>>> time.
>>>> The darkroom had been sitting mainly dormant.
>>>> They have no real body of work
>>>> No stack of prints to show friends when they come over.
>>>> No "book" as in prints stuck in pages.
>>>> No tray (round of 80 slides to stick on a projector). Or Pages of
>>>> slides or
>>>> in boards.
>>>> No website.
>>>> Nothing uploaded much of anywhere.
>>>> Not much of nothin.
>>>> They are 4x6" once every month or so minilab for the most part
>>>> people.
>>>> So I wonder; How much Tri X had he been shooting?.
>>>> ...Before giving it up for charge coupled devices.
>>>> Did they have so much Dektol in your blood that now they're going to
>
>>>> go cold
>>>> turkey? !!
>>>> I'm just guessing no -
>>>> It's a new hobby to replace one that wasnąt really there.
>>>> Two dozen lenses? That's a sure clue.
>>>> Of the two dozen pro's I know personally locally and globally none
>>>> of them
>>>> come close to using or owning Two dozen Leica lenses for their
>>>> shooting that
>>>> I can think of.
>>>> Is this the death of a Leica shooter?
>>>> Because it just sounds like a funeral for a Leica collector or Leica
>
>>>> buyer
>>>> and seller. A Leica dabbler.
>>>> 24 lenses!
>>>> That's 3 times 8!
>>>> 4 times 6!
>>>> Enough glass for 3 4 5 6 committed Leica shooters!
>>>> How anyone can look me straight in the face and put out the phrase
>>>> "Canon
>>>> Rebel with the $100 18-55mm lens." as a balance of some kind against
>
>>>> a more
>>>> than abundant setup of Leica gear is beyond me!!! What could be the
>>>> correlation between one of those cheap plastic zoom lenses and any
>>>> Leica
>>>> glass ever made including wale blubber incrusted?
>>>> ...A "Rebel" against an M or R? How do they in any way relate?
>>>> Opposites perhaps? That's pretty simple actually!
>>>> But as I said earlier when someone says they're going digital now I
>>>> say:
>>>> "Really how lovely!!!"
>>>> "Lets look at your prints!!!!!!"
>>>> I love to see how the two technologies compare.
>>>> I LOVE to see how the new A3's (11.7x16.5") and letter sized prints
>>>> stack up
>>>> against the old thick 11x14's and 8x10's.
>>>> They stick out on all sides by about 3/4s of an inch and get all
>>>> crinkled at
>>>> the edges that's how!
>>>> I think plenty of people who struggled in the darkroom do fine at
>>>> their
>>>> computer. Maybe printing now for the first time.
>>>> But also very much visa versa.
>>>> They are just tools put into the hands of the unskilled and
>>>> uncommitted to
>>>> produce very casual results. Hopefully to be traded for something
>>>> else
>>>> sooner than later. And without making a Federal case out of it.
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