Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/31

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Subject: [Leica] Re: cropping, personal opinion
From: Andrew Nemeth <azn@nemeng.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:15:56 +1000

Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com> wrote:

[Mindless LUG thread about cropping]

> Pardon my shyness and I'm not singling anyone out as I don't know the
> origin of this insanity, but whom ever it was that said "no cropping!" "You
> must print everything on the negative/positive right out to the edge," is a
> photographic moron.


Very true.  AFAIK the cropping-is-verboten mind-virus can
be traced back to the poster boy for all dilettantes, Mr HCB.

I guess the thread is yet another example of LUG Scolasticism
for the amusement of desk-bound, frustrated photographers.

:?)

Regds,



Andrew Nemeth

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