Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Rebuild my R8
From: InfinityDT@aol.com
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:13:50 EDT

In a message dated 9/7/99 2:10:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mrabiner@concentric.net writes:

<< When I started out in the late 70's about five of us had Nikon 24 2.8's on 
our
 cameras most of the time. It was my normal lens and almost never came off the
 camera. I shot most of the  California Coast with one. When we all went
 commercial the 24's came off and the 85's and 105's came on.
 Mark Rabiner >>

Look through Galen Rowell's books, the preponderance are shot with a 24 2.8 
or an 85 f2.  I wonder if anybody's ever asked him why he didn't/doesn't use 
Leica R (it's not going to be me!).