[Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

In the film days you would  have.


Mark William Rabiner
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> From: jon streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:34:02 -0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use
> 
> I occasionally try to spot Leicas being used professionally, such as in a
> flock (crowd?  herd?) of photojournalists, but I have yet to see one.

Sent
> from my Verizon Wireless Phone

----- Reply message -----
From: "Bill Pearce"
> <billcpearce at cox.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject:
> [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use
Date: Sat, Dec 1, 2012 10:00 pm


For a working
> PJ, using a Leica exclusively is a fool's errand. There are 
too many times
> when a long lens is necessary and the Leica can't do it. I 
have a friend who
> is a working PJ, and her used two Leica M8's for five or 
six years along side
> his Canons. Sold them two or three years ago, as it was 
for him too much
> money tied into things that were not universally useful.

Do I wish that it
> were still possible for a PJ with a Leica and a 35 could 
earn a living? Hell
> yes, b kSY57sut I would also be happy if newspapers 
weren?t laying them off
> all the time, or there were still news magazines.

-----Original Message-----
> 
From: Frank Filippone
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 11:37 PM
To: 'Leica
> Users Group'
Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use

The bottom line from
> this story seems to be....

If you are a newly minted PJ, and go out and spend
> your hard earned
non-existent extra cash to buy a Leica, the Company could
> give a hoot if
your camera is in the shop and you cannot earn your
> wages.

Sounds like a resoundingly good reason to use a N or C camera.

Frank
> Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net


> Did the Leica Rep make an offer to supply a
> backup when yours was in
> the shop?

Nope!

Phil
> Forrest



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