Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Voigtlander Color-Heliar 75mm f2.5
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:37:31 -0500

Mark Rabiner wrote, in part:

> It's OK.
> I just know two luggers here in town who sold theirs.
> The results they got from it were just OK and not OK enough I guess.
> I saw their prints from the lens. They were OK.
> The finish: Less than inspiring.
> You just wouldn't want to photograph your dieing mother with it.
> But it's probably OK.

I think that if my mother were dying and I had one last chance to photograph
her, I'd use any damn thing I could find, be it a 75 Color-Heliar, Kodak
Brownie, or Ilford one-time-use disposable.  That would not be the right
time to be a Leica snob. ;)

M.

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