Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Things really get complicated with the cross dressers. Dan C. At 01:36 PM 02-10-98 +0200, you wrote: >Wood, Darrell (London) wrote: >> >> I have a Black M6.85 and M6 Chrome. and (Chrome 35Asp,Chrome 90 & >> Black 50) Which 21m would be sensible to get. On the whole I have >> colour in the Chrome M6 and B&W in the .85. >> > > >Again, it depends. If shooting B&W, then obviously you'd want to go >with the black 21. OTOH, with colour, things get a bit more >complicated. Shooting transparencies (also known as "chromes"), the >choic is quite straight forward: go with the chrome. For colour >negative film, it's a toss up between whether you consider the colour >or the negative more important. For colour, go with chrome. For >negative, go with black. If undecided, talk to Leica about getting >a Panda version of the 21. > >Of course, this fails to take into consideration shirt colour. This >becomes vital if mainly using dark shirts, in which case, black is the >only way to go. Otherwise, go with chrome, unless your shirts are >predominantly blue, then chrome. T-shirts require black, regardless of >colour, whereas formal dress-shirts, especially those cut to measure, >must have chrome. > > >M. > >-- >Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | >Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just "DOHH" it! >SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ >Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho > >