Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/13

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OFF-TOPIC - John Van Stelten - Focal Point Inc
From: Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:45:26 -0400

Austin Franklin wrote:
><Snip>  Perfect pictures, no flare no nuttin but great
> pictures.  If you haven't used one of these, I urge you to give it a 
try...
>
> Austin

Bob Bedwell lent me his very new Superwide for a few weeks a few months 
back and
with the ground glass back and magnifier as well!
A great tool for fine wide angle photography but with a learning curve that
needs to be paid attention too.
Love that camera.

[Austin] Er, what learning curve did you experience?  I know you know 
Hasselblads...  The only thing I have to remember is to cock the shutter 
(same problem as removing the dark slide ;-), and to make sure the camera 
is level (it does nicely have a built-in level) to avoid converging 
lines...  It's kind of fun to use...more manual than the M-6!

But you're damn right, I do love that camera!  I just got back a set of 
chromes from it...WOW!  I can't wait to project them on a 25' by 25' screen 
;-)