Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: P&S vs ASPH
From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:07:39 +0100

Guys,
In a suprise trip to Portugal a couple of years ago I took my CLE with a 
couple of the Minolta lenses for portability, as my dear wife had paid for 
the trip I couldn't really turn it into a big-deal photo safari. She took 
her Leica Minizoom.
And when the snappy snaps arrived back from processing was I envious! Her 
Leica lensed pictures sure looked brighter, sharper, more colourful than 
mine, and that was just on 6x4s!
I use that camera myself more often these days...

Jem

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Krechtz@aol.com [SMTP:Krechtz@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/20/00 8:08:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
brougham3@yahoo.com writes:

<< My wife could (except I have the 'cron ASPH).  I was really
 surprised...and half expecting to hear, "I don't see any difference
 between your new expensive toy and your perfectly good N****."  I
 really wasn't expecting to see any difference at that size and on a
 machine print.  And I *really* wasn't expecting my wife to appreciate
 any difference.
  >>

One of the differences found to exist between men and women, in recent
research, is that women tend to have a far better ability to distinguish 
and
describe subtle shadings and variants of color.  My wife edits my chromes 
of
natural and human subjects for color rendition, contrast and saturation and 
unerringly catches the nuances evident in results from different lenses. 
 She
does the same with the occasional roll of color negative film I shoot for
other folks.  She, too, favors the high-priced glass.  By the way, there 
are
exceptions.  Some old Minolta p & s models have fine color rendition, too.

Joe Sobel