Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Quality versus Medium Format
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 08:58:54 -0400

> Austin writes:
>
> > Then how can you make a lot of the comments you
> > make on what one can and can not achieve with MF?
>
> I don't have to use it to know how it works.

I didn't say anything about how it works, but what the actual results you
can achieve are...entirely different.  I know how an excavator works, but I
certainly can't drive one very well...

> > I mean, you can guess, sure...but you really don't
> > know first hand, now do you?
>
> I don't have to guess; I can calculate.  And I find that
> calculating is often a
> lot more reliable than hearsay.

Sure, but first hand experience is surely far more reliable than anything
else ;-)