[Leica] Serendipity, film, and rediscovery

[drodgers7798 at comcast.net (drodgers7798@comcast.net)]

Based on my recent LUG musing people use a lot of different workflows. One 
thing I haven't seen recently is a pinhole photography thread. Obviously 
digital has completely replaced pinhole photography as a medium of choice. 
Please, a moment of silence for the shoebox camera?..

I admire those who can stick with one process. My favorite workflow runs in 
cycles. I've rarely touched my DSLR lately because I?ve rediscovered my 
Contax T2. I dusted it off intending to sell it, but decided to shoot a roll 
for old times sake.  I scanned the film with a Minolta Dimage 5400 and made 
some prints. Serendipity! Some of the best images I'd made in a long time. 
The more I use it, the more I like it. 

Even my Leica Ms are cumbersome compared to the T2. And the scanned images 
from film and the T2 are better than the results I can get from a comparably 
sized digicam. (I've never have warmed to the mini-digis).  

Tomorrow I may go back to Leica, or to DSLR, or Hasselblad, or even 4x5. It 
depends on my mood, and what I want to accomplish.

One of the great things about the LUG is that it shows me that variety is 
still alive and well. If we all used the same camera/medium/processing 
(workflow if you will) life would be pretty boring. 

BTW, in the T2 I?m shooting BW400CN primarily, but also shooting E100VS. 
Even when I convert the latter to bw it has a very different look from the 
BW400CN. 

Again, it?s great to have choices. Good images make for good 
equipment/medium/etc. Not visa versa, I always say!.

DaveR