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Subject: Re: [Leica] This guy is good
From: "Jack McLain" <jmclainaz@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:33:21 -0700
References: <3267CEE0-BEF4-11D7-9D5F-000393802534@mac.com>

Indeed he is... I just spent the last half hour touring his site.
Jack
Tucson

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From: "Martin Howard" <mvhoward@mac.com>
To: "Leica Users Group LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: [Leica] This guy is good


> 
> For the past few days, I've enjoyed browsing a rather extensive 
> collection of B&W photography by Bernhard Schmidt on the web.  I'm not 
> quite sure how I stumbled on this site orignally (perhaps via Google, 
> looking for the 21mm SA).  I don't think Bernhard's a Lugger (a quick 
> search of The Archives reveals no hits on his name), maybe he's a 
> lurker.  In any case, he shoots (as far as I can tell) exclusively with 
> an M3, a 21mm Super-Angulon, a 50mm DR-Summicron, and a 90mm first 
> version Tele-Elmarit (the fat one) on Ilford Delta 400 and Delta 3200, 
> printed on Multigrade FB warmtone.
> 
> http://www.bws-photo.de/index.html
> 
> He's got a good eye, shoots interesting, contemplative street scapes 
> mixed with a classic, B&W photoreportage style.  It's photography that 
> is not that easy to classify, which makes it all the more interesting.
> 
> But, for me, the main point is that it shows that good photography can 
> be practiced with a single camera body, three lenses, two films, and a 
> single paper.  It's easy to forget that sometimes.  Not least in this 
> forum.
> 
> M.
> 
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