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In 30 minutes or so this walkway will be packed with students riding to school and vendors setting up their carts.

The main drag on the left will be full of traffic.

Solo, Java. M6-75mm Summarit

C*

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Excellent Carl

Have you one at the busy time, that would be interesting .

Regard

Mike

 

Hi Mike. Thanks for the idea. I will take a photo from the same place when it gets busy.

By the way, you have a nice web site and working as a team with your wife is a nice way of working.

Beautiful images.

C*

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Bonjour Carl,

 

Très joli et bien différent de ce que je connaissais de ton travail.

 

A b&w comeback?

 

Pierre

 

Bonjour Pierre,

Peut-être qu’en vieillissant notre vision du monde prend d’autres tournures.

I, who has always been an avid B&W fan, have been forced to clean the dust of my M6 a few months ago when I had to send in the M9 to Singapore for a sensor change.

In Singapore I bought B&W film (almost impossible to obtain in Indonesia) and chemicals.

 

I have rediscovered the pleasures of B&W film developing and using a scanner to digitize the negs.

I now carry the M9 and the M6 (loaded with b&W).

Thanks for your comment Pierre. Maybe I’ll see you here one day. We can go out and «cucimata» together.

Cucimata is Indonesain for : to clean ones eyes, to refresh our vision.

C*

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Sorry to learn about your M9. A loss is sometimes an opportunity, as you prove it.

 

About this rediscovered film practice, I am curious about your process. You order Tri-X overseas and process it at home? I am curious how you compare the film experience with the digital one; does the slowness of process and predefined ISO change your photography?

 

I am often very nostalgic about film. Few times a year, I load an old Leica M4 with color film and I have the processed film and scanned at the local lab. The results are alright, not much more. The lack of control over the image is deceitful compared to the control over a raw file. Before the release of the Monochrom, a complete analog process seemed as the nicest route to luscious tones in b&w. As for the hybrid approach, I am under the impression that we get all the inconveniences of analog without the benefits of digital. Then again, I may be totally wrong.

 

Looking forward reading from you on that matter.

 

Pierre

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In 30 minutes or so this walkway will be packed with students riding to school and vendors setting up their carts.

The main drag on the left will be full of traffic.

Solo, Java. M6-75mm Summarit

C*

 

Very nice Carl, hope one day will have a chance to street shot with you there

 

Cheers,

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Very nice Carl, hope one day will have a chance to street shot with you there

 

Cheers,

 

Hi John. Yes hope we can do some Solo street photography together one day.

The small gangs of Solo are photogenic with their old Javanese Houses (Kuno).

C*

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Sorry to learn about your M9. A loss is sometimes an opportunity, as you prove it.

 

About this rediscovered film practice, I am curious about your process. You order Tri-X overseas and process it at home? I am curious how you compare the film experience with the digital one; does the slowness of process and predefined ISO change your photography?

 

I am often very nostalgic about film. Few times a year, I load an old Leica M4 with color film and I have the processed film and scanned at the local lab. The results are alright, not much more. The lack of control over the image is deceitful compared to the control over a raw file. Before the release of the Monochrom, a complete analog process seemed as the nicest route to luscious tones in b&w. As for the hybrid approach, I am under the impression that we get all the inconveniences of analog without the benefits of digital. Then again, I may be totally wrong.

 

Looking forward reading from you on that matter.

 

Pierre

 

Pierre, when I had to reluctantly leave the M9 at the Singapore Leica repair shop I was working on my sleeping bechak drivers project.

I did not want to stop covering the subject. It is then that I decided to use the M6. So in Singapore I purchased some B&W film and chemicals.

I rediscovered the joy of shooting film, especially black and white. After I process the film I scan the negatives on an Epson flat bed V700.

The quality is good enough in my perspective to make A2 prints (16x20).

Scanning is faster than the long and somewhat tedious process of printing in the darkroom. In short, I just want to say that I have come back to «mes anciennes amours»

and I am privileged in having the possibility of using the best of both worlds. Digital & Analog. C*

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