Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:05 AM 11/20/99 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote: >Again, I wonder if someone could please supply the date of the R4's >introduction. Adams died in 1984, I believe. The R4 was introduce in 1980, about the same time as the F3 and the LX. Adams died on Easter Sunday, 1984. I remember where I was when I heard the news. The only picture I've seen in print by Ansel and his R4 is a picture of a rock at Point Lobos. It looks like an egg in a nest. And his concern for absolute image quality was always compromised by his use of HC-110 dil. B and Tri-X with 35mm. He said he was so familiar with it that he just didn't want to mess with anything else. Or was that John Sexton reporting Ansel saying that? I don't remember. HC-110 dil. B and 35mm Tri-X are excessively grainy IMO. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. -Ernst Haas, "More Joy of Photography"