250swb Posted August 27, 2011 Share #21 Posted August 27, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) If you think film is no longer available and without variety you are seriously out of the loop. True, there has ben a massive shakeout in the industry and the mainstream players like Kodak have cut back and are nearly out, alongside the mainstream processors. We are not going to get back to those days again. The market is being serviced by smaller niche companies able to respond to the things people want. Plenty of film is avaliable for enthusiasts, plenty of labs are still available to have enthusiasts colour film processed, plenty of chemicals are available for enthusiasts to use at home, there are new films coming on the market for enthusiasts, there are new silver bromide papers being made for enthusiasts,.....and guess what, Leica have always sold their high end film cameras to enthusiasts. Today the internet makes it easier and cheaper now to buy even specialist film developers than it has ever been, Lomography are leading the way in enthusing a new generation of film photographers and developing a massive business, even opening their own processing labs, and secondhand film bodies haven't risen in price because of collectors, they have risen in price because they are being used again. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 27, 2011 Posted August 27, 2011 Hi 250swb, Take a look here Next Leica M Film camera. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Ronan Posted August 27, 2011 Share #22 Posted August 27, 2011 Film will end, along everything else, around 12/12/12. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted August 27, 2011 Share #23 Posted August 27, 2011 Film will end, along everything else, around 12/12/12. Buy enough stock, then, to document that event for posterity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Henry Posted August 27, 2011 Share #24 Posted August 27, 2011 Film will end, along everything else, around 12/12/12. not yet .. Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com Henry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted August 28, 2011 Share #25 Posted August 28, 2011 Originally Posted by Ronan View PostFilm will end, along everything else, around 12/12/12. What a relief. I need not main maintain archival storage, or even faithfulness to my wife. I am LIBERATED. Roman, it is so good you are merely a silly, but loveable chap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adji.AP Posted August 28, 2011 Share #26 Posted August 28, 2011 Film will end, along everything else, around 12/12/12. correction, according to Mayan prophecy, the end will come on 12/21/12 oh.. guess I should buy any film stock availabe and use it to the fullest before doomsday Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SangNguyen Posted August 28, 2011 Share #27 Posted August 28, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Maybe, MP with M7 Auto exposure addition! I do not think it needs. MP is the last film body because Leica does not number it as the previous series Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted August 28, 2011 Share #28 Posted August 28, 2011 Maybe, MP with M7 Auto exposure addition! You mean an M7 with black paint? Missing the point of the MP I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted August 28, 2011 Share #29 Posted August 28, 2011 MP is the last film body because Leica does not number it as the previous series If that were true, the M line would have stopped changing when Leica produced the original MP cameras back in 1956-57. Or the MD and MDa. I also don't buy the argument that the current film Ms are so perfect, just as they are, that no further development is possible. The Konica Hexar RF had: incorporated motor wind, 1/4000th sec. shutter, 1/180th sync. I found all of those useful at some time or another. I'm sure there are some photographers who would like a "Film M9" or a "Leica Hexar". Just not enough to make further development worthwhile. The number of people who simultaneously want low-tech imaging materials (film) and high-tech cameras is a niche within a niche. At my shop, people who want film cameras buy far more Pentax K1000s or Spotmatics or Canon FTbs than Nikon F100s (which are down to $250 per body and still don't move). The Hassy V and Rolleiflex TLR cameras sell - the Mamiya AF 645 film equipment (at 1/3 the price) doesn't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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