Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug Herr wrote: > > Outdoor Photographer's November 1996 issue featured the work of the > Japanese wildlife photographer Mitsuaki Iwago. This particular article has > several of his photographs of african lions which IMHO are worth looking up > the magazine. I saw that article and the reproduction (on my copy at least) was so terrible you would never buy a Leica based on the pix. I hope someone else had a better copy. Another issue of the magazine had a cover photo I really liked, but reproduction also bad, yet blurb said shot with a Leica 180. So I looked the photographer up in the ASMP membership list and called him. He said "thanks for calling, I've been just sick about the cover. I send them a marginal quality dupe and told them if they wanted to use it to let me know and I'll send the original. Well, I finally called and they said don't worry we used the one you sent and it looks fine." He says he uses long glass Canon for the autofocus, but never shoots backlight with it, only with L. All this made me wonder if they were intentionally messing up the reproduction. No, they wouldn't do that, would they? I did sometime later see a book by Iwago and it didn't look much better--not an advertisement for Leica. donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego www.donalphilby.com