Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/17

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Phillistines who own Leicas
From: fortunko@boulder.nist.gov (C.M. Fortunko)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 21:02:48 -0600

Friends,

May be someone should look up the meaning of the word Phillistine. I believe
that many inhabitants of the Middle East trace their origins to that ancient
culture. Let's be good Samaritans. 

Pax et Lux,

Chris Fortunko

>
>The poster of the original message mentioned 2 things:
>1.) he has not much experience with photography
>2.) he shot B&W rolls for testing.
>
>>From 1.) I deduct he didn't develop the film by himself.
>>From 2.) I conclude, that the finisher either put the B&W film
>into the colour developers (which is possible with some modern emulsions)
>*and* certainly printed the B&W negeatives on colour paper
>using his standard automated printing machine. 
>(Otherwise our friend would have
>paid a little fortune for printing, since B&W printers are very
>uncommon these days and good b&W prints are extremely expensive
>manual work)
>
>Printing B&W on colour papers always yields extremely *lousy* results 
>and you'd hardly tell the differences between photos taken by 
>a high-end camera or a children's toy.
>
>Maybe the original poster can comment on this,
>  Joerg
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