Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you for these marvellous pictures of your "Chinatown Project" which I immediately copied to my hard disk. Of course for private use only and your name will be mentonned if I can print them. In fact I'm without my personal computer for some time because of a major Windows problem. I'm helping myself with the new laptop (with Windows 8) of my wife and a small printer. If I may give an advise, never fall into the Windows 8 trap. This also means I feel quite uneasy for the time being because I am without my films canner, flatbed scanner, special printers and other such gear. I understand you are also seriously infected by all the possible microbes of photography. Because I have a wife and a child to raise and feed I try to limit myself to Leica and Hasselblad stuff. Of course I enjoy the M-9 I finally decided to buy without any regrets and without selling any other Leica M or R gear. At the contrary I even bought 2 R-8's and I'm well decided to buy a decent DMR as soon as I find one. I also found a brand new M-7 and only regret you cannot use the special Leica film cassettes with it. And I recently reassembled and put my Leitz enlargers in working order etc. Up to now I have only words of praise if not admiration for the results with my M-9. I heard from my good contacts and some results I saw at the LUG site that the DMR is not so bad as some say. But nobody dares to say something that DMR or even the R-8 & 9. I'm waiting for the return of Tina Manley after her trip to Europe Thank you to those who can give me an interresting opinion. Regards Cedric 2013/3/16 Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>: > Hi Cedric, thanks for the kind words. A couple more may be coming :-) > > Have you seen my "Chinatown" project? > http://richardmanphoto.com//Portfolio/Chinatown_web.pdf > > I need to update it with some better images. > > Indeed it's the Year of the Water Snake. Expect big changes.... > > As you may know, I have a Leica M9. In fact, I have had every single Leica > M mount digital camera since the Epson R-D1. The Leica lens are the reasons > to use them of course. However, I still photograph with my XPan a lot, and > also nowadays with a Shenhao 617 camera and soon Chamonix 4x5. > > Nothing wrong with the M9, that's my go to camera, but I like the XPan > format a lot and I love the tonality I get with the large format cameras. > > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Cedric Agie <cedric.agie at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Really good picture. I would also be interested by the others, be it >> lions or dragons. I know from a Chinese friend it's the year of the >> snake. Such pictures would be welcome too. >> Speaking of color developpement, indeed if you can process E-6, you >> can also process C-41, it's much easier and takes less time. Take >> care of the critical temperature for the first bath. The rest is a >> simple walk in the darkroom for a few moments. >> >> When I was much younger (E-4) the whole process was a nightmare that >> kept you in the darkroom for hours. E-3 was even worse, you had to >> reexpose the whole film. And once you started mixing your products, >> you had only a few days to use them. >> >> I'm happy to hear I am not alone developping B&W and color these days >> in a world of digital technics. I don't mind the chemistry or the >> filtering of color negs, but I hate mounting diapositives. >> >> The only thing I regret in color is that you cannot assemble your own >> products as for B&W. >> >> Regards, >> >> Cedric >> >> >> >> 2013/3/16 Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>: >> > Went to Chinatown for the first time in months! Grab some good shots, I >> > think: >> > >> > <http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20130316-Scanned-39.jpg> >> > >> > Also, the first (two) rolls of color negs that I processed myself. It's >> > weird, always though C-41 is tough to do. I have developed several >> hundreds >> > of rolls of E-6. It turns out that color negs are easier. Who knew? >> > >> > -- >> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information