Film is Alive and will always be so ( I hope )

[holmes]

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I have been taking photographs for over 40 years. Starting with a Speed 4x5 Graphic, polaroid, then down to 35mm and outward with my medium format of 6x 4.5 and the Pentax big tank of 6x7. Several years, my job required that I go an obtain photos of a specific location. To insert the photos required different method than film. So I went out and bought a tiny digital zoom. OK this is pretty slick. I graduated to a Leica pocket size. Then I retired. No more panic at getting these photos into the report for Washington and elsewhere. Somewhere along the way I had become attached to a stock agency. I duly submitted photos from the "want" list.

The fabled Leica "M". I had had no association with anyone who made photographs with one. But I knew their history and the famous photographers who had both made and recorded history. I took photos during the Vietnam war but not the kind for the front or back page or evening news with W.C. Around 2004 I bought my first Leica. A M 6TTL with a 50 mm. In five years I have bought and sold several 'Ms' and lenses. I think and my bank manager hopes that my my M outfit will do give. the future. Sadly was not the case. I wanted a small kit bag with a couple of "Rs" for the reach my Ms simply can't give. So now I am back to film ( though I never really left it ). I have a R6.2 and an R7 with a couple of lenses.

Now I have a question? Can anyone describe for me problems associated with the R7. Thanks