Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And Andre Kertesz used to continually produce large prints (16x20) that those very magazine editors thought were large format prints. House and Garden, and their ilk were full of photo editors would couldn't tell the difference, but they knew how to quote the numbers. Kind of like the guy who never drives his Porsche faster than 65mph. (That's a little more than 100 kph). Is life so different now? :-) On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 06:15 PM, LRZeitlin@aol.com wrote: > Magazine photographers mostly used Rolleis with their 6x6 cm film size. > European photographers used Leicas and Contaxes but US editors wanted > wire sharp, > flashlit, high contrast photos that would reproduce well on newsprint > with a 65 > line screen, not that impressionistic stuff that HCB shot. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." - -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html