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 p.8 #9 · p.8 #9 · Voigtlander 50mm f/1.5 Heliar Classic Review | |
Desmolicious wrote:
You already unloaded your 2022 M6? Film not your thing?
-> Sad face emoticon
At some point, I'll replace it with a black paint MP. The finish on the new M6 just doesn't appeal to me – it feels much closer to the Leica anodized camera finishes than it does to black chrome. Supposedly the M6 uses the same black paint as the M11, but the application of it to the M6 is very, very smooth, slippery almost. Leica needs to refine the application of this paint for both the M11 (too textured) and the M6 (too smooth). They need to split the difference so that the end result is closer to the feel of black chrome. Personally, I'd have been happy if they had used the Q-P soft, matte black paint on both M11 and M6. That was truly a wonderful finish.
Also yes, "film" is still an issue for me. It's frustrating to pay pro lab prices and get back prints and scans that are lesser than what I used to get from 1-hour prints from the grocery store and scans burned to CD back in the day. Modern chemicals either aren't kept fresh enough, and/or the chemicals themselves are compromised/lesser than they used to be. I have even started to wonder if the film itself is not the same. Portra for example is nowhere near what it used to be. Putting all that aside, even if the output was perfect compared to my expectations, the scans to digitize this stuff just adds back in digital noise that completely ruins the character of the film grain. I prefer taking digital images and putting film grain on it in C1, which looks more like real film grain than I get from scans of film.
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