Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 17/2/01 5:37 AM, Martin Howard at howard.390@osu.edu wrote: > Mark Rabiner wrote, in part: > >> It's OK. >> I just know two luggers here in town who sold theirs. >> The results they got from it were just OK and not OK enough I guess. >> I saw their prints from the lens. They were OK. >> The finish: Less than inspiring. >> You just wouldn't want to photograph your dieing mother with it. >> But it's probably OK. > > I think that if my mother were dying and I had one last chance to photograph > her, I'd use any damn thing I could find, be it a 75 Color-Heliar, Kodak > Brownie, or Ilford one-time-use disposable. That would not be the right > time to be a Leica snob. ;) > > M. When my mother was dying I was too busy performing CPR on her. The thought of taking a picture, Leica or not, never entered my mind. J.