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What's the goofiest thing someone has said about your film M (or about film)?

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pico

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Same thing with music and the change from vinyl records to various digital formats. I find it depressing as the old technology is arguably better from a musical standpoint.

 

;) Have you ever heard J S Bach played on the original instruments? OK, you did not mean that old.

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;) Have you ever heard J S Bach played on the original instruments? OK, you did not mean that old.

 

Bach does indeed sound glorious on some contemporary instruments. The Silbermann organs come to mind.

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Big 3-page feature article in the paper this week about the enormous revival of vinyl (especially amongst young hipsters), and the lab where I get my film developed (Team Framkallning in Stockholm) is working weekends at the moment, to keep up with demand.

 

On the other hand, I was sharing a car with my partner's father-in-law last week (an extremely well-informed and erudite gentleman, in fact), and he told me quite authoritatively that Kodak had totally stopped producing film.

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Not using an M but film. My three-year old son has already realised that there are two kinds of cameras: those that immediately show you the picture, and those that run on funny little canisters that you have to drop off at the drugstore and wait for the pictures to return in order to view them. My wife still wants to look at the screen of my Pentax ME ... :p

 

Yup, got that kind of son & wife too!

Thomas

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On the other hand, it is easy to be a Luddite (a profoundly misunderstood bunch, by the way.) Yes, the Concord was designed with pensils and slide rules, but I can watch and listen to to opera at the New York Met, and from Barcelon, because of computers.

 

On the other hand, the Concord was designed with a budget that would worry god, and tested to destruction at every stage. Not an economical design process.

 

The remarkably sohisticated aluminium ships that I build could simply not be done without computers, human beings simply do not live long enough to do the FEA calculations alone.

 

Much of my MP was, I am sure, chiselled from a block of brass by a computer controlled process, and the digitals obviously could not exist without computers, after all that is what they are.

 

The respect that I have for Leica comes from their knowledge of how far they can go with computer controlled manufacture, and where they have to give it over to remarkably skilled human beings. They have taken the high road of absolute quality, not without occasionaly getting lost, but over all ,they have stuck to the track and this is what makes their products unique and remarkable.

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At Manchester Airport last week:

 

Security Guard 1: "Do you have any electrical items in your carry-on luggage?"

Me: "No. Oh, wait, I have a lightmeter"

Security Guard 1: "You have a light meter. So you have a camera with you?"

Me: "I have but it is clockwork"

Security Guard 2 "Is this a wind up?"

 

 

New York Souvenir Shop:

 

Shop Owner: "That nice camera. Is good camera? Take good photo? Who make camera?"

Me: "Leica."

Shop Owner: "Ah, Leicapanasonic".

Me: :eek: Er, No!

 

 

Pete

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On the other hand, it is easy to be a Luddite (a profoundly misunderstood bunch, by the way.) Yes, the Concord was designed with pensils and slide rules, but I can watch and listen to to opera at the New York Met, and from Barcelon, because of computers...

 

Nothing Luddite about preferring a film image to digital sensor output. I sit and work with computers everyday (along with probably 95% of the members here), and recently programming has been my biggest focus (including iOS apps), but that doesn't stop me from having an aesthetic preference for film.

 

Ridiculous that people always heap together film and old-fashioned. There's absolutely nothing 'nostalgic' or 'technophobic' about the look of Portra 400 in the sunshine.

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I prefer to keep film inside its cassette and out of the sun...:p:D

 

 

There's absolutely nothing 'nostalgic' or 'technophobic' about the look of Portra 400 in the sunshine.
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I was out taking pictures on Main Street with my MP when an off-duty photojournalist noticed the yellow filter and realized I was shooting B&W film. He immediately approached me to tell me that he sometimes shoots B&W film too, when he isn't working. He seemed to be trying to reclaim some credibility.

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At work I found some old educational slides of planets and the solar system, so I thought it might be a good gesture to give them to my colleague's ten year old son.

 

He was marvelled with the odd stuff that I gave, and commented:

 

"These are the digital picture cards, right?"

 

:)

 

K

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Anti war demonstration during the Iraq War II. London.

 

Passing Hyde Park. The place was swarming with press and I ended up next to this photojournalist, who looked at my two M bodies and Nikon F3 like I had just arrived from Mars.

 

"How can you possibly shoot with one of those? How do you get anything in focus or know if you got the shot?"

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I shoot with a Rolleiflex. I always get a comment about it being an old box camera. You can be all set up on a tripod, cable release in hand and you get the box camera comment usualy followed up with "can you still get film for it?" like I carry it around empty and pose with it for fun. "Film" I say "whats that?"

 

Kevin.

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It was no mean feat for me to keep a straight face but somehow I pulled it off.[/quote]

 

A bit harsh, pulling the guys face off after his comment! :)

 

Kevin.

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3 Weeks ago..........

In a high street camera store (a well known one)

In I walk.......up comes a young assitant

'Can I help you sir?'

'yes please - I'd like a roll of 36 exposure Delta 400'

'Errrrr... sorry sir'

'36 exposure Delta 400'

Up comes assistant no2

at this point assistant no 1 says

 

'Is that a camera sir?'

 

Oh dear oh dear!

 

Assistant no 2 - once told it was film sent me upstairs to the next floor where they had

the film.

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Messsucherkamera

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"You might as well shoot film, since your camera has no display screen". This statement came from a friend who saw my MP, he owns a micro 4/3 and a fleet of lens.

 

 

Regards,

Daryl

http://www.dtohphoto.com

That's my favorite comment so far.

The duh factor on that one is through the roof (although assistant #1 in Pintpot's post is decidedly a close second)! :rolleyes:

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