Re: [Leica] Uh...was that a yes or a no?

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

Hey Ted:

Just wondering, was it the camera or the photographer that he noticed?  What
I mean is did he notice a particular optical look or was it something in
your shooting style that tipped him off?

By the way, does anybody still do those multi-image slide shows?  There are
some that our organization still uses for public display, but we are having
a hard time getting them duplicated with the proper masking etc.

Mike D

- -----Original Message-----
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@islandnet.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, January 17, 2000 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Uh...was that a yes or a no?


>Mike Johnston wrote:
>>I'm not talking about optical science in this instance. I'm talking
>>about PHOTOGRAPHY. I'm talking about whether you can actually see any of
>>these differences in actual photographs consistently enough to justify
>>your habit of asserting the innate and consistent superiority of one
>>brand of lenses over all other brands.
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>>This isn't to "prove" anything. It's just to see whether a few people
>>can tell or not. Who knows? Maybe they can. We'll see.>>>>>>
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>Hi Mike,
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>If I may, let me tell you of a major A/V production house I shot a lot of
>work for during the '80's and the senior creative director, Paul Smith of
>Vancouver.
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>A note of Paul's background: He produced/directed multi-projector
>presentations for many international clients, 24 projectors and more in
>some of them, as well  many award winning shows for EXPO 86.
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>Me, the only one using Leica, was one of a dozen photographers, the others
>a mixed bag of Canon - Nikon, whatever, who worked on many programmes
>to-gether. So there were a mish mash of hundreds of slides on a dozen 4' X
>8'light tables at any one time.
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>I watched this man litterly pick out my Leica slides from all the others
>without hesitation! Time after time, to the extent it became a betting game
>between the photographers to see if he'd get it wrong when a bunch of new
>slides were layed out. I made a good bunch of money on those bets. :) He
>never missed once over a period of 5 years.:)
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>On one show where several of us had shot to-gether (Kodachrome 64,) he was
>so exasperated trying to match slide scenes and becoming really p.... off.
>When he yelled at everyone in the room, "Either everybody gets Leicas or
>Ted has to get Japanese!"
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>You know the answer to that....I'm still using Leicas!:)
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>On prints I would imagine it's harder to tell the difference more so than
>with color slides. Quite frankly, I'd be surprised if anyone could tell the
>difference between the new M 15mm Cosina from a Leica lens in a print!
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>However, I'm going to pass on your challenge invitation as I can get myself
>in hot water quick enough without making myself look dumber than I am.
>:):):)
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>Try the slide test... it's easier to see the difference.
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>ted
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>Ted Grant
>This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler.
>http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
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