Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/26
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On 26 Sep 97, Jim Brick wrote:
> no... sometimes things get said but the origin is not valid. Like the
> post yesterday about having to use a German enlarging lens if you
> shoot with a Leica.
<snip>
Surely, this was said in jest. Not?
Stranger things have been said, however. Somewhere in the last couple
of years, since I've become interested in Minox, I read a fellow saying
that because early Minox cameras used a curved film plane to
accommodate the lense's inability to focus properly at the edges of the
film, it was necessary to use a similarly curved negative holder in the
enlarger's light path to compensate.
Like you implied, "there's one born every minute"!
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Roger Beamon
Naturalist & Photographer
Leica Historical Society Of America
mailto:beamon@primenet.com
The greatest of all gifts is the power
to estimate things at their true worth.
-- La Rochefoucauld