Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] re: Leica M - small and compact?? thoughts (long)
From: Bernard <5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:51:56 +0400

Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

> A side note: scale focus and DoF is not inaccurate. It's simply harder
> to
> use accurately. ;) Shooting with a Minox subminiature is a great way
> to
> improve your photography. And they take remarkably good pictures. When
> you
> return to the enormous film area of 35mm cameras, it becomes very easy
> to
> achieve the technical quality that you fight for with a Minox.
> Sometimes
> the Minox is exactly the right camera.

I have a Minox EC, but I've used it only once to shoot things I wasn't
really supposed to shoot. I processed the film, but lazed out of
printing from the film, because I lost interest in the subject matter.
Hearing this positive comment from you, I think I'll just see what those
negs are capable of. Fascinating, after all....

Bernard.