Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/03

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Medium format
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 16:03:01 -0400
 
> >A bigger negative IS always better.    Unless the camera is made
> in China.
>
> Again a wrong statement. A few years ago te British Journal
> published an two
> part article comparing the Seagull 6x6 Rollei copy with a top class 35mm
> camera/lens.
> Guess who won? The Seagull picture was visibly better.

I can't imagine which "top class" 35mm camera/lense they tested it against,
but I have a Seagull...and I have used it...and the images are really
fuzzy...  Even as contact prints, they aren't as good as even my P&S 35...