Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Arthur Peterson writes in part: > > Three quarters of a century > ago, Cartier-Bresson was taking better photographs with his > technologically deprived (i.e., by today's standards) Leicas than > I'm taking today with the latest electronic bodies and aspherical > lenses. And if using equipment as antiquated as his would enable > me to take photographs as good as his, I'd trade my modern > equipment for it in an instant. > Which company was making the best glass in the world at that time? It seems HCB was concerned that his images were being exposed on a film plane with Leica glass in front of it. Regards, Greg