Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] [Fwd: scanner]
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:51:55 -0700
References: <NABBLIJOIFAICKBIEPJJIELFAGAB.darkroom@ix.netcom.com>

I don't have to compare, at least at this stage of the game. I don't
have the time to waste. I'd rather do it sitting at a coffee house than
testing _consumer_ equipment. I've owned over 50, maybe 60-can't seem to
remember, Leica lenses, and that's including a variety of printing
lenses. So I'm not exactly coming in from a position lacking experience.
That's field experience, not bench top, where the darndest critters come
out of the woodwork just to make one's day really interesting. 
What it means, is that for the time being I will only print my Leica
35mm exhibition work with my V35, period. 
If you want to see what's missing, check out the travelling exhibit on
New York put together by the _concerned _ photographers. The
presentation , with all due respect to the casualties, was enough to
make me puke. I can't countenance placing my work in front of the public
in such a technically primitive manner.
Slobodan Dimitrov


Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> > As far as I'm concerned there is nothing compatible with what I get from
> > my Leica optics, even as close as some other product might come. That
> > missing 5-10% from brand X is glaring, and unacceptable.
> > Slobodan Dimitrov
> 
> Slobodan,
> 
> WHAT do you believe is missing?  What SPECIFIC aspect of a scanner is not
> sufficient for your images?  I am looking for a specific technical aspect
> that you claim a current midrange+ scanner doesn't "get" from your Leica
> images.
> 
> Austin
> 
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