Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Spin the ring
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 00:22:30 -0800

At 4:51 PM -0800 12/23/99, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>Roger Beamon wrote:
>>
>> On 23 Dec 99, John Collier wrote, at least in part:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> > Does anyone have a Leica 72 they would not mind lending me so I
>> > can try this?
>>
>> Though a devotee of the user school, the 72 might be an
>> exception for me. If I had a 72, I not only wouldn't lend it to
>> anyone, but I wouldn't be using it myself.
>>
>> Even my ideology has limits!  :-)
>>
>> --
>> Roger
>I'm a half frame advocate but no one else responds to it. A half frame
>Leica is
>due I say. A half frame anything is due I say. Tab grain films have made half
>frame the size which is smart I say.
>But a Lieca 72 is worth too much money. They would throw you in the looney bin
>if someone saw you out with one. But some guy was saying something about some
>guy who was out with a Platinum so who knows?
>Mark Rabiner

Get an original Konica Autoreflex. Great (very cheap) lenses, and half and
full full frame, choosable for every shot. If a photofinisher ever gives me
grief, I can come in with a rollof 35mm film, with every third frame full
frame, and the rest half! Please, sir, give my 60 exposure roll the best of
treatment, and make sure you balance the flourescents, halogen and daylight
shots! This is a half frame camera to be proud of and to use. I tend to use
it mostly for record shots, and half frame is made for that. Only I do tend
to try to keep to one format at a time.

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