Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica]Latest Issue of Leica Fotografie Int.
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 08:28:23 -0500

I read the magazine mainly for the photographs.

Dan C.

At 08:37 AM 28-03-00 +0200, Pascal wrote:
>On 27-03-2000 21:37 Andrew S Jordan wrote:
>
>>I want to bring to your attention articles about the 90mm f2 Summicron-M
>>apo-asph(by our esteemed contributor Erwin Puts) and the 100mm f2.8
>>Elmarit-R apo-macro lenses. The C1 is also discussed. Moreover, there are
>>excellent photos of "People" by Tom Wood.
>>Enjoy reading this frequently maligned magazine.
>
>as a matter of fact, I wrote a complaint to the German editor yesterday, 
>on the Günter Franz article series. Last time it was on "standard 
>lenses", this time on the 100mm Macro-Elmarit. These two articles are 
>merely a collection of common-places, stating the obvious ("why use such 
>lense", description of the available M and R lenses in the relevant 
>category and so on), with no added value and almost a disgrace to any 
>serious reader (at the same time photographer, I would hope).
>Luckily, there are still the articles by Erwin Puts in the magazine, 
>these are informative and well-documented.
>
>Pascal
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