Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/15

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Subject: [Leica] B&W Leica? Higher ISO
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:33:40 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 Phil Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>wrote: 
> I'm waiting for this wave of mediocrity to sweep into the professional 
> world and then the 
>employment opportunities to open up to folks who learned how to do this 
>on K64 with a spotmatic that had a broken light meter. 

>Phil Forrest
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Does a Spotmatic with Kodachrome II count?   ;~)

My favorite B&W film was Panatomic-X (32 ASA).  Now it's FP4, which is still 
only 125 ISO.

I think the high ISO's help with slow zooms that people are addicted to.  I 
like fast prime lenses.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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