Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Tina nails it
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:39:58 -0400

Christer Almqvist jotted down the following:

> But, ...would you use tripod, slow film or stopped down lens if that
> made the picture better?

Not to put words in Tina's mouth, but it's a moot point: the kind of
photography that Tina and many other Leica rangefinder users do cannot be
done with a tripod, slow film, and stopped down lens.  It's like asking a
modern day airline pilot, "Yeah, but if stationary aircraft induce fewer
cases of air sickness, would you consider not taking off?"

M.

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