Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Luggers I recently visited the HCB exhibition at the The National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Apart from the superb content of photographs spanning 60 odd years, the thing that amazed me was the stunning quality obtained from 1930's Leica lenses. Some of the prints on display were huge and the quality was fantastic. I noticed on some of the prints the negative area actually merged into the sprocket holes, perhaps this is a lesson for all of us not to get carried away with cropping in an attempt to improve the image. Just take photographs and use the full frame (sprocket holes and all). Alan Stokes