Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi BD, First at all thank you very much for your kind words, I agree with your daughter (congrats for her job!), unfortunately we have to experience ourselves to realize which are our mistakes, I?ve forgott to comment you that I like very much your B&W from Fuji and that I liked very much too the B&W conversions from the M8, IMO bettter than the ones from the M9. I don?t use bulk loader but maybe will do it. On 25 - 27th. May is near Barcelona a show dedicated only to the film photography, it is a pleasant event and every year becomes bigger. <http://revela-t.cat/2018/en/> Cheers Lluis > El 28 abr 2018, a les 20:47, B. D. COLEN <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> va > escriure: > > Hi, Lluis! Yes, I love seeing your images on Facebook and Instagram. I > must say I never understood the attraction of the Monochrome - not that I > could afford one if I did understand the attraction :-). But to me, the > best thing about digital is that one captures in color - yes, I know that > the sensor sees in black and white and adds the color, and one has the > option from image to image to change ISO, decide the image should be black > and white, color, or whatever. And of course, pixels are free. But I > heartily agree with you that as good as digital images processed as black > and white can be, they are NOT silver images. My daughter, who has grown > up to be the Associate Director of the Howard Greenberg Gallery, in NYC, > has for two decades been saying to me, ?It?s nice, Daddy, but it?s not the > same as silver.? Film as a depth and solidity that black and white digital > lacks. None of which is to say that I will stop shooting digital. I love > my various Fujis and the results I get from them. But I am glad I made the > leap and grabbed this shockingly well preserved three-lug M5, and I am > finding with every roll that I?m getting back into the Leica rhythm - and > focusing. Now to get a bulk loader, 100 feet of HP5 - which makes it > affordable again, and chemicals for developing. > > Anyway, thanks for the welcome back.You?ve long been setting an example > for the rest of us. > > B. D. > > On April 28, 2018 at 2:29:40 PM, Ripoll via LUG Lluis (lug at > leica-users.org) wrote: > > Hi BD! > > I?m very happy to meet you again here, even if we have never lost the > contact in Facebook and Instagram here is a better place to meet friends. > > I?m happy too to see you are back with film, me too, I?ce realised that > film B&W is not the same as digital, even with the Monochrom (even I?m > considering to sell it!). I?ve never tried your suggested software, but my > decision to come back to film was after I?ve prepared my Silver Gelatin > prints for my exhibition in Tamarkin in Chicago, IMHO this made the real > big difference. > > Cheers! > Lluis > > >> El 28 abr 2018, a les 16:20, B. D. COLEN <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> va >> escriure: >> >> Howdy all - Having returned to shooting a film M, I find myself with a >> DUH question: Are there any M5 shooters here, and if so, can anyone tell >> me the trick for framing vaguely accurately using a 21 mm finder in the >> M5 shoe, given how far off center it is? >> >> Thanks much >> >> The photographer formerly known as Dr. Blacktape >> >> B. D. Colen >> A Day In Our Life (r) >> Web >> Instagram >> Twitter >> Facebook >> 617-413-1224 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > B. D. Colen > A Day In Our Life (r) > Web > Instagram > Twitter > Facebook > 617-413-1224 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information