Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Digital M - was Leica to Restructure, Cut Staff
From: "Jeffery Smith" <jls@runbox.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:53:44 -0600

Back when they were making the Retina? Hmmm. The lenses were good, but
they were Schneider lenses. I thought as early as 1968 that Ilford was
better B&W film, and Chinese-made Seagull paper and Ilford paper were
better than Kodak. And then they really decided to get frugal and put
less and less silver in their paper, and I couldn't get a true black
from it. Sorry, but if you put Agfa, Ilford, Fuji, Kodak, and Konica
head to head, I have Kodak beating Konica. Konica's 50 ISO C-41 film is
absolutely dreadful.

Sorry Yellow Father, but I've never considered you to be best of the
best in my lifetime.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA


BD said:

>So Kodak is the "best of the best?" Maybe 40 years ago.


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