Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Summarex question
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 18:31:32 -0500

Simon Pulman-Jones wrote:
> 
> I'm very happy with what I shot with the Summarex in a theatre a couple of
> days ago - the main limitation is that over-exposed highlights, especially
> under theatre spot lights, get an abundance of the ethereal Leica glow -
> which means that you have to expose for the highlights and lose shadow
> detail if you don't want halos everywhere that make the picture look like
> religious kitsch. 
>

Would pyro solve/alleviate the problem?

M.

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