Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Younger photographers and Leica rangefinders
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:55:51 -0600

>I'll bet that's not true nowadays with EOS, AF, and all the rest.
>Everything is getting to be so automatic, the days of young photographers
>with the ability to look at any scene and just "know" it's 1/60th
>at 5.6 with Tri-X etc. are probably long gone. 

You'd be surprised. And when Peter said it, the AF revolution was already
in full swing and the EOS was beating the pants of Nikon in the AF department.

And nobody uses Tri-X any more.

(Now, how ridiculous does THAT sound?)

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

I disagree with unanimity.