For those of you who were following Paul Chefurka's thread More M stuff in Nat Geo, some of the pictures from the referenced National Geographic article are now available for viewing online:

Italy's Po River

-- Anon Terry (anonht@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002

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btw two other features in this issue were also shot by Leica M photographers:

Catfish Hunters, photographs by Randy Olson
ZipUSA 60614, photographs by Nina Berman

-- Anon Terry (anonht@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

Is it just me or does the person who puts National Geographic's photos online suck? There's a lot of artifacting and noise.

-- Richard (rvle@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

In fact, looking at the rest of the site, it seems to me that most of the photos on the site suffer from too much JPG compression. Very amateurish. Do they not have a photo editor looking at the site online -- he/she must notice how bad the compression is. It rally takes away from the presentation.

-- Richard (rvle@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.