nemetz
Newbie
Hi all,
First of all please excuse my English, unfortunately this is not my mother tongue.
I´ve been reading in this forum for quite a while and I drawed my conclusions because of that.
My age is 49 but I´m still as curious as a kid, luckily.
I got my first camera, a Minolta SRT 101 b at the age of forteen and I can still remember the emotions I had when I saw my first developed colour slides.In fact, I still remember the scene I took, a picture of a pristine river full of trouts, the river still exists , the trouts are gone and so is the slide.
Ever since then I´m infected with film, even though I didn´t take any pictures until the age of propably 35.I went into digital, 2 years ago I decided to try black and white again in the classical way(dit it in school a lot though)
and ever since I´ve become a follower of film photography.I posessed a few leica Ms and sold them , I had two Zeiss Ikon ZMs and sold them , I had a few DSLRS and sold them, altogether pretty crazy behaviour.
I even sold a Leica MP and some really great glass(a Nocti also), so I consider myself beeing an idiot.
But I always went back to slides and black and white, in fact I even took slides in Mozambik on a hunting trip(the Leica CM did serve me well).
Today I went to Vienna, sold a Canon 5d Mark II and bought a Leica 6(Numer 6 now,pun intended) the first film , a Trix is drying right now an it looks very good to me.
Why do I tell you this kind of boring story?For a simple reason:I think I have not been mature enough for a manual camera like the Leica M6, but I feel that now I am.I had to find this out the hard way that the big DSLRs are just not for me, even though the picture quality is amazing.
I somehow just grew into it, the days of aperture priority are gone(M7, Zeiss ZM) and it makes me extremely happy to judge the light, set everything as I think it to be and just fire.
That turns my mediocre way of picture taking on to a new level, judging the light by myself -even if it´s only two films so far(I´m quite astonished that I´m probably not that much of a nerd.....).I believe this to be VERY important for me, because there will be even less between me and my vision.It´s all up to me, now, no more automatism.
Can I get my point across?
I would like to thank you all and very much Mr Abrahamsson for all the good advise he gives, as a matter of fact he "made" me buying a second hand M6 instead of an MP, and that sure saved quite a bit of money.
Kind regards, Thomas
P.S.: My Leitz sure looks good, like out of the box. I´m very , very happy.
First of all please excuse my English, unfortunately this is not my mother tongue.
I´ve been reading in this forum for quite a while and I drawed my conclusions because of that.
My age is 49 but I´m still as curious as a kid, luckily.
I got my first camera, a Minolta SRT 101 b at the age of forteen and I can still remember the emotions I had when I saw my first developed colour slides.In fact, I still remember the scene I took, a picture of a pristine river full of trouts, the river still exists , the trouts are gone and so is the slide.
Ever since then I´m infected with film, even though I didn´t take any pictures until the age of propably 35.I went into digital, 2 years ago I decided to try black and white again in the classical way(dit it in school a lot though)
and ever since I´ve become a follower of film photography.I posessed a few leica Ms and sold them , I had two Zeiss Ikon ZMs and sold them , I had a few DSLRS and sold them, altogether pretty crazy behaviour.
I even sold a Leica MP and some really great glass(a Nocti also), so I consider myself beeing an idiot.
But I always went back to slides and black and white, in fact I even took slides in Mozambik on a hunting trip(the Leica CM did serve me well).
Today I went to Vienna, sold a Canon 5d Mark II and bought a Leica 6(Numer 6 now,pun intended) the first film , a Trix is drying right now an it looks very good to me.
Why do I tell you this kind of boring story?For a simple reason:I think I have not been mature enough for a manual camera like the Leica M6, but I feel that now I am.I had to find this out the hard way that the big DSLRs are just not for me, even though the picture quality is amazing.
I somehow just grew into it, the days of aperture priority are gone(M7, Zeiss ZM) and it makes me extremely happy to judge the light, set everything as I think it to be and just fire.
That turns my mediocre way of picture taking on to a new level, judging the light by myself -even if it´s only two films so far(I´m quite astonished that I´m probably not that much of a nerd.....).I believe this to be VERY important for me, because there will be even less between me and my vision.It´s all up to me, now, no more automatism.
Can I get my point across?
I would like to thank you all and very much Mr Abrahamsson for all the good advise he gives, as a matter of fact he "made" me buying a second hand M6 instead of an MP, and that sure saved quite a bit of money.
Kind regards, Thomas
P.S.: My Leitz sure looks good, like out of the box. I´m very , very happy.
Moriturii
Well-known
That's a lovely story, now wait until you get your hands on an M2 
Good luck and posts some pictures!
Good luck and posts some pictures!Vics
Veteran
Congratulations! Stay with film this time. We need the numbers! Post some pictures when you can!
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nlubis
Well-known
Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to see pictures too.
leica M2 fan
Veteran
Very captivating story, Nemetz. I wish you the best of luck in your photography. Be adventurous, try slides, try more B&W, try C41 films and do post here.
Tom A
RFF Sponsor
Welcome to the the M folds again. Yes, better to have a M6 and the lenses you want rather than a MP and no money left for film.
Ok, at sometime in the future I can see a M2 in your hand .
Please post some pictures too.
I just spent the day in the darkroom. printing a friends shots from Sendai, japan. Haven't done any "real" printing for a while and suddenly re-discovered the pleasure of watching magic again. Stick a piece of white paper in a solution and watch a picture appear!!!!!
Tom
Ok, at sometime in the future I can see a M2 in your hand .
Please post some pictures too.
I just spent the day in the darkroom. printing a friends shots from Sendai, japan. Haven't done any "real" printing for a while and suddenly re-discovered the pleasure of watching magic again. Stick a piece of white paper in a solution and watch a picture appear!!!!!
Tom
Haigh
Gary Haigh
Thanks for sharing that Nemetz. For me too, film has that special look. I look forward to your photos.
nemetz
Newbie
Thank you all very much for your welcome, indeed.
The trix in Promicrol @ 800 came out very well and I´m looking forward to go to the "darkroom"( which is more or less the broom chamber) this afternoon.I much prefer wet printing to scanning even though with sanning it´s quite amazing to see how many stops a good negative is able to deliver.So, for the foreseeable future I don´t think at all that black and white film is decading, I worry about slide film , though.
One roll of Fuji Velvia 100 is abouz 8,7 € now and that´s without lab costs, so I usually do slides only for vacations.However, I enjoy my slides very much with my Rollei MSC.
This year, our vacation will be in the Provence and I will take slide film and of course black and white film with me.
Hava a nice day and kind regards, Thomas
The trix in Promicrol @ 800 came out very well and I´m looking forward to go to the "darkroom"( which is more or less the broom chamber) this afternoon.I much prefer wet printing to scanning even though with sanning it´s quite amazing to see how many stops a good negative is able to deliver.So, for the foreseeable future I don´t think at all that black and white film is decading, I worry about slide film , though.
One roll of Fuji Velvia 100 is abouz 8,7 € now and that´s without lab costs, so I usually do slides only for vacations.However, I enjoy my slides very much with my Rollei MSC.
This year, our vacation will be in the Provence and I will take slide film and of course black and white film with me.
Hava a nice day and kind regards, Thomas