Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/24

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Quality versus Medium Format
From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 21:44:42 -0500

> I came across a lovely Rolleiflex 3.5F for a very reasonable priceand am
> thinking of purchasing it.. I've not used medium format before and I'm
> wondering whether users of Medium Format on this lsit could comment about
> the pros and cons of having a 35mm system and a medium format system.

I shoot both MF and 35, and find they are different tools for different
situations.  TLRs are quite fun to use, if you consider that fun that is ;-)
I won't say one is better than the other, but that they compliment each
other very well...