Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I know that magazines are easily available _anywhere_ by subscription. I even have a recent issue of Camera Arts generously brought to me by a fellow LUGger who came to se me from NA. But the point I want to make is that most people do not want to fork out money for an annual subscription when they just want to know the highlights of one special article. And most people do not have the time to read _all_ magazines either. When there was a test of Delta and Tmax 3200 in half a dozen different developers at several ISOs in the French Réponses Photos, I wrote a short English summary of the results (it took minutes, not hours to write), and when the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung had an interview with Mr Cohn, I summarized it too and published both for the LUG. It must have been the right thing to do because in both cases I got several private thank-you notes by email. I must say that I was a bit disappointed that nobody was able or willing to summarize the current Camera Arts article on Xtol, particularly as there is a wide interest in Xtol in this group. But I am still hoping. (Or will it be that next time somebody asks if a Summilux is better than his Summicron, the answer will be that Summicrons are easily available, and go and get one for ourself and test it?) Chris > >Camera Arts is in fact easily available here--by subscription. It is available >from Lotus View Camera, Ernsting 31-32, 5121 Ostermiething, Austria. Telephone >+43.6278.7900, web page: http://www.lotusviewcamera.at/; it is not >cheap--135 DM >for a year's subscription (6 issues)--but worth every pfennig. > > >> Please give us a short summary of the article. Camera arts is not really >> available in Europe >> >> >The June/July issue of Camera Arts has an interesting article "New Products >> >for the B&W Photographer" on XTOL. - -- christer almqvist eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58