Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Younger photographers and Leica rangefinders
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:18:49 -0800

Not ridiculous at all.  Only people I know who use Tri-X are you and several
LUGs.  Everyone else uses TMax or T400CN. ;-]

Peter K



> ----------
> From: 	Eric Welch[SMTP:ewelch@ponyexpress.net]
> Reply To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: 	Monday, February 15, 1999 10:55 AM
> To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: 	Re: [Leica] Younger photographers and Leica rangefinders
> 
> >I'll bet that's not true nowadays with EOS, AF, and all the rest.
> >Everything is getting to be so automatic, the days of young photographers
> >with the ability to look at any scene and just "know" it's 1/60th
> >at 5.6 with Tri-X etc. are probably long gone. 
> 
> You'd be surprised. And when Peter said it, the AF revolution was already
> in full swing and the EOS was beating the pants of Nikon in the AF
> department.
> 
> And nobody uses Tri-X any more.
> 
> (Now, how ridiculous does THAT sound?)
> 
> Eric Welch
> St. Joseph, MO
> http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
> 
> I disagree with unanimity.
>