[Leica] It's not the "Leica" glow

[Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>]

> and on the other we have a bunch of guys who
> call the flare and veiling of the old, optically inferior lenses, the "classic
> leica glow."


I don't think so.

First of all, it's not the "Leica" glow. It has nothing to do with Leica
specifically or exclusively.

It has to do with the look of well-made, well-crafted prints.

When I filled in one summer as the Darkroom Manager at the Corcoran School
(a friend who was supposed to have the job had gotten herself into a
motorcycle accident), people used to come down from upstairs to ask me what
in the world a "silver" print was, because they just couldn't believe how
beautiful some of the prints on exhibit in the Gallery upstairs were.

Don't worry, Dan, *I* know what you were talking about. <s>

- --Mike