[Leica] How I plan to get my M9 while keeping both kidneys...

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I heard this a few years ago a different way....

In order to differentiate themselves, several wedding photographers in Los 
Angeles were doing B+W weddings in the style of hte 50's -70's....and 
charging double to triple for the honor. 

It is all about differentiation, and raising the bar on costs......

Of course, my cut on this could be purely cynical.....

Frank F


Just to lend some 
>credibility to my post here, lord knows I have little), her recent 
>experience is that the top B&W photographers, meaning the ones with 
>$$$ sorry no names, are returning back to traditional processing due 
>to the relative lack of gradation in the digital color 
>conversion.  In other words they are done with the excitement of the 
>technology and getting back to what good B&W is all about.  I also 
>know a Magnum photographer in my neighborhood who showed me his new 
>state of the art darkroom in the basement of his brownstone.  He 
>complained about similar issues with digital B&W.
>