Re: [Leica] THANKS! From Dr. Blacktape and B.D.

["Bud Cook" <budcook@ibm.net>]

If I were younger and starting from scratch it would be 24, 35 f/1.4, 75 and
the new 135.  However, if I were into black and white I'd get me another
Rollei:-)
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Bud Cook

- ----- Original Message -----
From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: Leica-Users@Mejac. Palo-Alto. Ca. Us (E-mail)
<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 2:02 PM
Subject: [Leica] THANKS! From Dr. Blacktape and B.D.


> Over time I will respond privately to those of you who were so kind as to
> offer your wishes, best and otherwise!;-)
>
> I want to take this opportunity to say, briefly, that I really was
> overwhelmed both by the number of those of you who sent best wishes, and
who
> some of you were...Folks whom on occasion the good doctor may have
> "disagreed" a tad with. This list really is an amazing little experiment
in
> instant universal community of one sort or another....It is, quite
frankly,
> the only thing I would really miss if I had to give up the internet...
>
> NOW..onto the IMPORTANT STUFF...
>
> I hate question like this, but I'll pose it anyway:
>
> Suppose you already had a 35 1.4 and a 90 f.2...You could add either a 21
> ASPH and a 24ASPH....a 21 ASPH, or a 24ASPH, AND a 75 Summilux. You shoot
> virutally all b&w...all available light...all people, much of it in tight
> surroundings,....which would you chose and why? (I have used a 21
> extensively, love it, do get enormous use out of it, but find it a bit
> extreme at times. I have owned a Nikon 24 and used it extensively, but
found
> at time it wasn't quite wide enough...Which means, do I go for the two
> wides, and say to hell with the 75? Or do I add that fabulous 75 with it's
> extra stop, and settle on one super wide?...Help Me Before The Insurance
> Check Comes!
>
> B. D.
>
>
>