Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 26 Sep 97, Jim Brick wrote: > no... sometimes things get said but the origin is not valid. Like the > post yesterday about having to use a German enlarging lens if you > shoot with a Leica. <snip> Surely, this was said in jest. Not? Stranger things have been said, however. Somewhere in the last couple of years, since I've become interested in Minox, I read a fellow saying that because early Minox cameras used a curved film plane to accommodate the lense's inability to focus properly at the edges of the film, it was necessary to use a similarly curved negative holder in the enlarger's light path to compensate. Like you implied, "there's one born every minute"! - -- Roger Beamon Naturalist & Photographer Leica Historical Society Of America mailto:beamon@primenet.com The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth. -- La Rochefoucauld