Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:27 AM 7/8/96 GMT, you wrote: >- At this time, 35mm (that has been invented by Leica) was not a >professionnel format. It was too small compared to 6*9. >20 years after, 35mm is considered as a professional format. True, but even back in the "good old days" Andre Kertesz, and others, used to make prints from 35mm Leica images and send them to publishers, and not let them see the negatives, because they were "too small." But they loved the prints. Ansel Adams congratulated Peter Stackpole for getting a large format camera when he shot the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge construction. Stackpole shocked him when he told him it was Leica. >- At the present time, Leica is buying APS format. No big deal. APS won't work in an M6. It wouldn't know what to do with it. <G> Not to mention it wouldn't fit. >- Contrary to the old toys format (disk etc...) APS is born from an >agreement of the biggest leaders in photography. They had to, to make processors spend $100,000 on new film processors. 126 was the same width as 35mm. And continuous processors can handle it. Disc film was a major investment. So after being burned on buying a bunch of new equipment - some very expensive to read magnetic media - on disk film, I have my doubts they will be that enthusiastic. Maybe Kodak and others have already gotten over the hurdle though, before hand. >- At the present time, APS seems to be a very good film for vacation's >photographers and will be the go-between chemical and numeric photography. For that it sounds like a good idea. I just don't like the prospect of film prices going up. Maybe they won't if they emulsions are the same. ========================== Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier NPPA Job Information Bank Chair Region 11 Immature poets borrow, mature poets steal" T. S. Eliot