Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was recently looking through an old National Geographic Book called Backroads America, or something like that and it appeared that Ira Block was shooting with an R3. At least in all of the photos of him he had one around his neck. It is interesting to me to look at those older color books and see the differences in color reproduction then to now. The photos were nowhere near as well reproduced as they currently are. I imagine a lot of this is because of technology changes in the setups on the presses and the way pages can be computer controlled to supply the proper amount of ink, compensate for registration and more. Also I guess some of the varriations could be in the fact that films are better now than then. Anyway it was a good book and well worth looking through, it was neat to see photos from North Georgia and see that things there are now much the same as they were in the 70's. By the way I subscummed to the rebates and swapped my beat up old M3 for a new M6. I find the internal meter handy, even though I am from the incident meter school of thought, and I find the finder, even though smaller, very easy to use. Also has anyone ever traveled through Rutherford County North Carilona. This is where The Last of the Mohicians was filmed and I am going there to do a travel piece next week, and if anyone knows of any off the beaten path beauty areas (other than Chimney Rock-the site of the movie-this one is an obvious and I need other locals) I would like to hear about them. Thanks, Harrison McClary http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto