Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/29

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Subject: [Leica] 50mm F1.4 redux, or on the need for speed.
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Tue Jun 29 17:05:37 2004

Sure are, especially the small papers. Just about every in house publication
has gone to double duty, or in the vernacular of another era the speed up.
S. Dimitrov

> From: Feli di Giorgio <feli@creocollective.com>
> Organization: Creo
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: 28 Jun 2004 10:49:01 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] 50mm F1.4 redux, or on the need for speed.
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Another factor is the declining standards for published work.  Go to a
>> magazine stand and really look at the photographs.  The really major
>> firms still have good solid images, but the second tier images are
>> typically poorly done.  Even the gray lady tries to make images better
>> by over, and I mean really over USMing.
> 
> I have definitely noticed that. As an example, when I recently went down
> to the Reagan funeral to take some shots, I noticed several reporters
> with digital point-shoots and wondered if their publication was having
> them do double duty.
> 
> Feli
> 
>> Don
>> dorysrus@mindspring.com
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio) ([Leica] 50mm F1.4 redux, or on the need for speed.)