[Leica] Visit to France - Digital or Film?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

On 6/22/05 7:15 PM, "Robert Clark" <rclark01@comcast.net> typed:

> Jeff:
> All of my other trips have been with the Leica M...I understand what you 
> are
> saying.  I love film too.
> 
> Robert
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Sumner" <jdos2@mindspring.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Visit to France - Digital or Film?
> 
> 
>> I did Portugal (Lisbon, Oporto, and VNdG) with an MP, 35mm Summilux,  50
>> Noctilux (and 8x ND), 90 Summicron AA, and 135 Elmarit in April  and May.
>> 
>> It was the perfect kit- minus a short lens.
>> 
>> I'd do film again. It has a nice look.
>> 
>> JD

To me "France" is like hallowed ground as far as most of this whole
photography thing goes. Cin?ma too.
Lumi?re means light right? Close enough.
I think of the rooftops Ni?pce shot.
But even if the French didn't invent it (photography) like they mainly did
there's also France itself.
That is the French countryside and...
Did I forget...
PARIS?
(almost left it in my other pants)

There is a mystical combination which as always existed between Leicas and
Paris. 
A ja nais sais pas. An irresistible force in the summer, when it sizzles. A
tintabulation of the bells bells bells and that hunchback fella -
Nostradamus. Who predicted CompactFlash and that Tri-X would be built in a
new factory.
To shoot Paris with ones Leicas at home seems like it would have to be an
artistic and personal felony.

A no no of the first degree.
    in the winter, when it drizzles,


Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/