Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Voigtlander Color-Heliar 75mm f2.5
From: "Dr. Joseph Yao" <joseph@yao.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:20:12 +0800

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.

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