Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Juan, I believe that LFI is formally independent of Leica, being published by Umschau Verlag, I think, but in practice it serves as Leica's "house organ", similarly to "Pravda" vis a vis the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. I subscribed to it for a couple of years, but found the articles boring and sycophantic, and many of the images not particularly good. Maybe they have improved, or maybe you just got a particularly good issue. It is also quite expensive for what you get. Nathan Juan Gea-Banacloche wrote: > I imagine many LUG members have received the latest issue of Leica > Fotografie, with the first images obtained with the Digital Module R > (quite impressive, but then again Leica would not send them poor quality > images...) > > I was most impressed with a feature on the book [and exhibit, currently > in Kaispeicher A, Dalmannkai in the Hamburg Harbour (North Germany)] > "Men at Sea", photos by Jean Gaumy. Amazing black and gray (and grain) > pictures with Kodak TMZ 3200 of the life of Spanish fishermen. There is > almost no white in the images. > > Anyway, my question is: does anyone know what the relationship between > Leica and LFI is? Are they owned by Leica, only heavily subsidized or > nothing at all? I have to say I find almost half of the material very > interesting. > > Juan > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com