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Subject: [Leica] M7 body coming - Lluis
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:53:20 +0000
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Here develop and scan to CD is about ?10 (?12.50) which is in addition to 
film
costs of course. Ilford charge extra.

Peter

On 13/03/2016 23:35, lluisripollphotography wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> I have the same bad experience, once I have ordered a scanned film, they 
> gave me Tiff files but very bad scans, at this moment, except if you go to 
> a high pro level the best is you scan yourself your negs and also develop, 
> here a professional developing cost some more than 10? per film and I?m 
> not sure how good is.
> 
> Lluis
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> El 13 mar? 2016, a les 23:59, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> 
>> va escriure:
>>
>> I tend to agree but if you want C-41 you are quite limited...basically to
>> Ilford, although there is some BW400CN still around on the shelves.
>>
>> If I can inject a word of caution: watch the processing workflow. A lot 
>> of these
>> guys say that they will provide TIFFs or hi-res JPEGs. In my humble 
>> experience.
>> I have processed four films recently, two through my (formerly excellent) 
>> local
>> dev shop and two by Ilford.
>>
>> Neither came back as I requested as High Res TIFFs. Both the dev shop and 
>> Ilford
>> returned scanned JPEGs. In the case of the dev shop the girls who now run 
>> it
>> didn't seem to know what a TIFF was; to them developing was just a piece 
>> of
>> workflow. Pop in the film at one end of the scanner and out pops a JPEG. 
>> Trouble
>> was that they were only 1M.
>>
>> The Ilford ones at least were 3. -5 M, but goodness knows what the 
>> variation
>> signifies or how the decision was made.
>>
>> In short you need to find someone you can trust and build that 
>> relationship.
>>
>> But don't let that put you off film. It is still a brilliant medium.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> PS From conversations I understand that some of the processing machine
>> manufacturers no longer supply machines that will do other than supply 
>> JPEGs
>>
>> On 13/03/2016 13:31, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>>> Hi Gerry,
>>>
>>> Permit me to jump in?while film selection is not as good as 20 years 
>>> ago, in B&W I have bought some of the same films I used back before 
>>> going digital, such as Tri-X, Fuji Acros, and the Ilford films.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
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>>> YNWA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 13 Mar 2016, at 10:01, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Lluis
>>>>
>>>> your comments are of great interest. Now I have made the decision to 
>>>> shoot film again for some of my work I cannot wait to get started. I am 
>>>> a little out of touch with modern films, so which do you use?
>>>>
>>>> Gerry
>>>>
>>>>> On 13 Mar 2016, at 02:15, lluisripollphotography 
>>>>> <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Good new Gerry!
>>>>>
>>>>> I?m shooting again film too, I have several films to develop, I?m a 
>>>>> little disappointed with all these problems with sensors etc? , I have 
>>>>> followed the comments on the LFI about the sensor problems and one of 
>>>>> the members has said "If you want "real" B&W, pick up an earlier M 
>>>>> Leica or any other film camera and shoot film.?
>>>>>
>>>>> As you say, we are trained for this!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Lluis
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> El 12 mar? 2016, a les 17:21, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at 
>>>>>> icloud.com> va escriure:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I ordered a used M7 today, and I am looking forward to getting back 
>>>>>> to film after 13 or 14 years. I bought it mainly as a backup in case 
>>>>>> anything goes wrong with my M9, but having said that i shot film for 
>>>>>> around 40+ years from the age of 14 and it will be good to play with 
>>>>>> it again. Back to the world of exploring which film is best handled 
>>>>>> by the processors I guess because i don't want to get into the 
>>>>>> processing side of life, which I never did enjoy. it should arrive on 
>>>>>> Tuesday complete with an 'Artisan' half-case and a Leicatime strap - 
>>>>>> such class!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gerry
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gerry Walden LRPS
>>>>>> www.gwpics.com
>>>>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>>>>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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