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Subject: RE: [Leica] Bokeh - proven myth ?
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 02:08:43 -0500

Hi Slobodan,

> A friend, Ann Fishbein, uses a  Plaubel Makina. While she decries it's
> mechanical durability, as it's been in the shop a few times, she won't
> switch to anything else. But then she trudges all over the world with
> it, with her favorite being the parts of Russia that are more like the
> third world. Certainly not the urban beating we would give it here.
> Also, I believe it's the only f2.8 6x7 in past production.
> She doesn't have a web site, but her photos on Russia with that Plaubel
> are in the permanent collection at the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art.
> The ones I've seen rivalled anything that my Rollei could do. The one
> thing it could do that my Rollei couldn't is fit in a jacket pocket.
> Another friend who uses Fuji 6x9 rangefinders, normal and wide, has
> produced, in my opinion, disappointing work with them. That work was
> shown in the same museum's display on California Art from the last
> century, 20th that is. They were enlarged to the point that the physical
> limitations of the fuji optics became quite apparent, in color fidelity,
> particularly in the greens, and the most obvious, poor resolution.
> Needless to say he's work with his Leicas has always looked far superior
> to me than his 6x9 work.

Great info for me!  I have been strongly considering a Fuji GW690 III, but
it doesn't have a meter in it, and it's got a damn Fuji lense...so I've been
very hesitant.  I really do like folders...and the GS645 is great, but
again, that damn Fuji lense...  I appreciate the info on the Plaubel.  I'll
be looking for one, but they are going for a premium these days...seems like
it's a collectors camera now.  Damn.

I still love my Leicas though ;-)

Regards and Happy New Year,

Austin

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