Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15

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Subject: [Leica] Younger photographers and Leica rangefinders
From: Jim Bauman <jbauman@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 08:37:50 -0800

Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> wrote:

>...he had stated that young and
>upcoming photojournalists were moving towards black and white photography,
>and using Leica rangefinders. 

I'll bet that's not true nowadays with EOS, AF, and all the rest.
Everything is getting to be so automatic, the days of young photographers
with the ability to look at any scene and just "know" it's 1/60th
at 5.6 with Tri-X etc. are probably long gone. 

Jim Bauman