Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/27

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Subject: [Leica] M7, M8, Film, Digital, same lenses
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Mon Nov 27 21:09:54 2006
References: <7.0.1.0.2.20061127195756.024204c8@infoave.net>

Tina,
this is exactly the frustration that 'forced' me to go digital. You cannot
really swim against the tide and the the colour tide is digital. Even if
you wanted to, the equipment for film processing etc will be run by the
most junior staff (the good ones are running the digital equipment), the
maintainence will be poor (if you think your chemicals were out of date!!)
quality control will not be of the Robin Williams kind and film handling
will be less "stringent". Most of my recent films are damaged etc even
from the lab that used to do a good job, and I'm sure this is the reason.

Unless you process enough film yourself, I think labs will not be reliable
soon and film processing and printing will be "erratic".


> LUG:
>
> One of the totally unintended consequences of buying the M8 is that I
> have returned to using film.

snip.


In reply to: Message from images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] M7, M8, Film, Digital, same lenses)