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Subject: [Leica] I have saved a soul
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Mon Jul 17 00:55:28 2006
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Doomed, another one condemned to suffer along with the long drawn out 
death of film ;-)
Douglas - who is going out this afternoon to buy a pile of Kodak Elite 
100 and 200 to last for the next 3 weeks.


Jeffery Smith wrote:

>Well, I HOPE you told him that he has to shoot B&W and develop it himself!!
>
>I keep thinking that, with all of the popularity of dSLRs and digicams, the
>price of film cameras, especially medium format, will crash. That doesn't
>seem to be happening yet. I put up an e*** search for "new medium format"
>cameras, thinking that dealers will be dumping their Bronicas, Mamiyas,
>Pentaxes, etc. The only new medium format hits that come up each day are for
>Holgas!
>
>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA
>http://www.400tx.com
>http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Vick Ko
>Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:02 PM
>To: 'Leica Users Group'; 'Internet Directory of Camera Collectors'
>Subject: [Leica] I have saved a soul
>
>
>I have saved a soul.
>
>Last week, a friend was set on buying a DSLR.  Now, he's convinced on either
>a Leica M or a Nikon film SLR.
>
>But mostly, I told him to settle on a camera, stop shopping and start
>shooting.
>
>..Vick
>
>
>
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