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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: cropping, personal opinion
From: Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 16:08:37 -0700

At 08:15 AM 6/1/01 +1000, Andrew Nemeth wrote:
>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.
>
>:?)
>
>Andrew Nemeth


Hell... HCB couldn't crop. 24x36mm image on film of that era and lenses of
that era... whew!

:)

Jim