Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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