Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Terry, I feel responsible for bringing up the subject, in my reaction to Mark's question about a good film/developer combination, and I just refered to 35 years of experience. My remark about German lenses, German films, German film developer and (what I did not mention) German photographic paper (also Agfa), has not so much to do with sharpness but with contrast, greyscale, 'color' rendition (note that every color has to translated in a particular shade of grey, and the tone of the greyes and the black in the photograph (tonality). As I was told, it is highly likely, that a German cameralens is tested making use of German films, chemicals, and paper. It is my exeperience, after having used dozens of cameras, films and developers, that Leica in combination with Agfa matarial makes a very, very reliable and, in terms of results, predictable combination. It same proved to be perfectly true in IMHO for the Rollei 6x6 (Schneider Xenon) and the Agfa material. But as a number of other reactions imply: never change a winning team; often there is much more in the material than we are able to harvest from it! Gerard J. van den Broek