Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Use just a 50mm, are you nuts???????
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:01:35 -0500

At 12:32 AM 4/16/98 +0000, you wrote:

>Hey, whaddya mean "a Minolta of all things"? Some of my best pictures (and

Not only that, W. Eugene Smith's Minimata photo essay, which by coincidence
was about people being damaged by mercury dumping in Japan (mostly) and
Canada), was shot on Minolta SRTs. Some of the most moving pictures in the
history of documentary photojournalism, and probably his greatest triumph
as far as photo essays go.

But who cares, Leica is better. :-) 
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Eric Welch
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