Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I started in photography 12 years ago with a new FM2 and a used 50/1.4 AI; the whole thing cost me $400 then. There were plenty of AF bodies to choose from but I chose the FM2 because I knew if I was going to learn anything I had to learn it from an all manual camera. Back then I knew nothing about Leicas. If I remember correctly, a used M2 and 35 Summicron from Shutterbug ads would have set me back over $1200. Being a student this kind of money for a camera was unthinkable. If I knew then what I know now I would have saved up for a Leica, but then again if I had known I would have bought Microsoft shares with my tuition money! Walter S Delesandri wrote: > Right, Mark.....I agree totally.....I've made good on the dirt > cheap Nikon MF glass (beautiful non-ai lenses -- all under $100... > mint-) and the fantastic Nikon F/F2 (prefer std. prism, of course) > They ain't never gonna be this cheap, in adjusted dollars, again.... > Perfectly complement my (non-metered) Ms.... > Walt > > On > Mon, > 15 > Feb 1999, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > Jim Bauman wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > > > I wish I was starting out now in photography with all the non AF Nikon > > glass of above standard of the industry quality going for dirt cheap. > > They refuse to spend their little student incomes on non AF glass. Poor > > babies. Nikon AI glass has gotten to be of Classic standards in my book. > > Of course what is slightly less ubiquitous and more desirable is older > > Leitz glass, but I didn't know about that so much then. > > Mark Rabiner > >