[Leica] Leica M6/Tri-X vs. Ricoh GR-D and Leica D-Lux 3

[mitcha at mac.com (mitcha@mac.com)]

> Accepting grain or any other aberation as to being desired; is a  
> perversion.
>
> I may be different from you guys but I prefer the quality of a 4x5  
> negative.

Jerry:

I can do no better than responding with the following quote from  
Elliot Erwitt:

> Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's  
> not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank  
> might strike someone as being sloppy--the tone range isn't right  
> and things like that--but they're far superior to the pictures of  
> Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel  
> Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard.  
> But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to  
> do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out  
> the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention. - 
> Eliott Erwitt

--Mitch/Bangkok