Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:43 PM 2/5/98 -0800, you wrote: >Eric, > Your tape dissertation below makes exactly as much sense as >"taping-up" a Leica! Or any camera for that matter. I'm glad you all enjoyed it. I sure did writing it! :-) In journalism school, many students taped up their Nikons and Canons. I taped up my Leica R4 cameras for a week or so. Not one single student that I can remember was still taped up by the time they graduated. (Several work for National Geographic and other major publications since). David Allen Harvey, Missouri grad, National Geographic, and now Magnum fellow (not one of my classmates, but I met him in J-School several times) shoots whole photo essays with an M6. And he says one reason he used the M6 in Peru was so the shining path (Maoist) guerillas didn't pick on tourists like they did journalists. And people there thought of the M6 as a point and shoot, which game him better access to some people's lives. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence...