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Subject: [Leica] An observation
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Thu Nov 11 09:00:27 2004

And since Fuji keeps wanting to break Kodak's commercial knee caps, Neopan
will be here as long.
S. Dimitrov


> From: Frank Farmer <frankandaubrey@mindspring.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:26:56 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] An observation
> 
> Seth,
> 
> RAP?  Such a horrible experience that in photo terms (on topic) only an
> image of a Leica being run over by a dump truck near a broken, spilled
> bottle of Lagavulin and a shredded Tilly hat could come close to
> portraying the emotions involved!
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Rosner <sethrosner@direcway.com>
> Sent: Nov 11, 2004 5:43 AM
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] An observation
> 
> Feli, they will be making Tri-X forever - plus 21 years plus a life in 
> being
> en ventre de sa mere (for those lawyers among us who recall with horror
> learning the infamous Rule against Perpetuities)!
> 
> Seth            LaK 9
> .
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Feli di Giorgio" <feli2@earthlink.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] An observation
> 
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 10, 2004, at 8:09 PM, Jeffrey Lu wrote:
>> 
>>> The other day, in an nocturnal emergency, I ran into a local store
>>> looking for 120 hp5+...i saw almost no film out in the open (just a
>>> couple rolls of consumer colour neg) so I asked the proprietor if she
>>> carried any roll film.  She led me to a dorm-room fridge; there were a
>>> few rolls of tmax 100.  That's it.  And it was well past the exp date. I
>>> hope that means she just sold all her tri-x, fp4+, hp5+, apx 100 etc.
>>> that day and was left with the stuff nobody wants.  But I get the feeling
>>> that she WAS left with the stuff nobody wants, and not because there was
>>> a big influx of roll film buyers that day.
>>> 
>>> Jeff
>> 
>> 
>> Ok, I hate to admit it, but I'm going to do it anyway.
>> 
>> I really like shooting color film. I prefer the dynamic range print film
>> has over digital and the fact
>> that it doesn't look 'plastic'.
>> 
>> BUT, I have been completely spoiled by the color accuracy of digital
>> color, especially under
>> changing light sources. Auto white balance is a gift from heaven or at
>> least Japan. What I do
>> greatly dislike about digital is the Bayer pattern smear. If there was a
>> full frame, 10 megapixel
>> FOVEON type camera out there I would be a very happy man. If then someone
>> could figure out
>> how to give me the dynamic range of print film, I would have very little
>> reason to shoot anything
>> else for color work. I'm curious to see how the new Fuji S3 turns out. It
>> uses a unique type of chip that
>> has a separate set of receptors for the highlights. I saw a few test
>> frames and it looked impressive.
>> 
>> Black and white is a whole different story... as long as they keep making
>> Tri-X, nobody gets hurt.
>> 
>> Feli
>> 
>> 
>> 
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