Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:10 PM 10/21/03 -0700, Ted Grant wrote: >Liam Maloney offered: >Subject: [Leica] to crop or not to crop > >Hi Liam comments attached to each clip. > >> I confess - I hate cropping my photos. In fact, I >> almost never do it.<<<< > >An error usually learned too late by many who might have made a good >photographer. Ted I can point out that the late and quite lamented CAMERA & DARKROOM magazine ran a contest shortly before its demise for the BEST roll of 36-esponsure 35mm negatives. Not one person entered, apparently, as none of us want ALL our pictures on a given roll examined, and certainly NOT to the edges! Some of the best pictures I have taken have been shot as grab-shots and I am delighted to get a small area of the negative which I can then enlarge and print, a virtue of great films and great cameras. Sure, I have done some grand work with Medium Format gear, especially with Rolleiflex, Super Ikonta B, and Hasselblad SWC gear. But, all in all, the primary utility of the Leica RF is that it encourages quick photography, and that often demands severe cropping. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html