Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:28 PM 22/08/97 -0700, you wrote: >Also, the Oct issue of "Photo Techniques" is just out. The article, "A >Narrative History of Color Photography" gives credit to Kodachrome and the >Leica for heightened interest in color photography in the 1950s. > Yeah. And check out the article by Ctein on contrast-control masking in colour. Look at the crappy photo he uses to illustrate the article. Unbelievable. Good writing, lousy illustration to make the point = mediocre journalism. I was so disappointed with the illustration that I wrote him to let him know that some of his readers expect better quality. As they say, a photographer is often only as good as his/her last image. He has done some remarkable things in the past, some of which break new ground over the past 20 years, and perhaps that elevates him to a higher standard than would be expected of other writers. In reply, he said that he liked the photograph, and that he was not offended by my remarks: we simply had different tastes. Oh give me a break! - -GH