Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/03

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Subject: [Leica] Some thoughts on 100 years of Leica
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Sat Jan 3 15:20:33 2009

On Sat, 3 Jan 2009  "tl" <tlianza@comcast.net>wrote: 

>For the centennial, I would vote for images from Leica glass.  
>This would expand our family of potential photographers who have
>Canon or 4/3s bodies fitted with Canon Glass. I think that it is a 
>tribute to Leica's optical prowess to see the lengths photographers 
>go to put that glass on modern digital bodies.  It is 
>the Leica glass that is enduring.  That's my two cents.   
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I think for the centennial it should be 100% Leica, but I want to put in a 
good word for Leica bodies. I had a Nikon S2 once, but I greatly prefer the 
ergonomics of M Leicas to other rangefinders.  The quiet, RF M bodies are 
what attracted me to Leica photography, not the lenses. Much of what 
I shoot has to be done with Nikkor or Canon LTM lenses, since I have only 
been able to afford those or pre-1960 used Leitz glass, but for this 
celebration
I would use only Leica lenses.  No non-Leica digital please (for this 
collection).

Besides: Leica = LEItz CAmera; not Leile (LEItz LEns)  ;~) SMILEY

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/



  

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