RE: [Leica] Rick's Place

[Jim Laurel <jplaurel@microsoft.com>]

Jorge,
There's no question that your Mamiya 6 is going to deliver images with
smaller grain and higher apparent sharpness, etc, than your Leica.  It's a
simple matter of film size.  Even the high performance of Leica optics can't
offset that basic fact.  But I'll 

- -----Original Message-----
From: jorge@cybernetrix.com [mailto:jorge@cybernetrix.com]
Sent: Friday, July 10, 1998 8:50 AM
To: Leica Users (E-mail)
Subject: [Leica] Rick's Place


I'm looking for some recommendations on photo gear. I'll be leaving next
week to spend a few days travelling through Morocco and plan on visiting
places not so frequented by tourists. I've been warned of beggars, cons and
thieves. I usually travel with a Mamiya 6MF and 75 as well as an M camera
with 4 lenses (I like rangefinders). 
Since I'd like to travel as light as possible and yet maintain the best
quality, should I go for the medium format (only a "normal" lens) or settle
on the smaller negative with the versatility of 4 lenses(21,35,50,90). The
best shots will probably be blown up to 8x10 and film is both chrome and b/w
for both formats. My Leica images blown to 8x10 rarely look as good as the
medium format ones blown to the same size (all else being equal). Any ideas?

Thanks and regards to all,
Jorge Fernandez
US Embassy, Madrid