Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/22

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Subject: [Leica] Old tools
From: dnygr at cshore.com (dnygr)
Date: Sat Jan 22 09:20:08 2005
 
Ken Frazier wrote about using 100-year-old tools and older Leica camera and 
lenses.

While we pride ourselves on the advances of technology, people in the past 
were not stupid and made marvelous things. I know many large format 
photographers who use 100-year-old lenses. 

That said, I need to say that what I like about Leica is how they have 
improved their lenses over time. That says a lot about them.  And I marvel 
at how good the images Leicas produce. I have some 16x20 Cibas made from 
Velvia slides and they have detail like you wouldn't believe--all this from 
a 35mm image. That is remarkable engineering. And if paper were able to 
accept everything that is on a negative, I think we'd see even better how 
great the Leica lenses are. 

Doug Nygren 

 
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