Re: [Leica] Response

["steve lehuray" <icommag@toad.net>]

For those LUGGERS who don't know, Sal is a staff photographer for TIME 
Magazine. I met him last year at a Washington, DC photo show (he was lurking
around the Leica booth drooling) and he is a really cool guy, and, the black
M2 he was carrying is even more beat up than mine.
Steve
Annapolis

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>From: "Sal DiMarco,Jr." <sdmp007@pressroom.com>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: [Leica] Response
>Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2000, 9:38 AM
>

> Luggers,
>         First of all, as someone new to the LUG, I was amazed at the
> passionate opinions voiced over my recent posting.
>         As for my opinions about the Hexar, I still stand by them and I did
> not know what was said prior to a week ago. Sorry, if I wasn't as orginal as
> some would have liked.
>         I never said I accepted the 1/50 M sync speed, someone else ASSUMED
> I did. A 1/125 x-sync is not enough. I won't buy a half way solution to the
> M camera syncro-sun question. I look forward to further improvements in the
> M-camera.
>         Yes, Iam a Kodchrome fan, but I haven't shot a roll of Kodachrome on
> an assignment in five or six years. mostly because of the processing time
> lag. As a photojournalist, I want future generations to have the option of
> looking at my pictures. Permanance is Important! (Sorry, Ted) Think, what
> would future generations think about World War II, if Bob Capa's D-Day
> photos, Joe Rosenthal's Iwo flag raising pictures faded away?
>         Like most of you, I would never buy a gold plated M6 or any of the
> limited editions but there are plenty of people out there who will, and they
> are adding much needed D-Marks into company's bank accounts. Some of this
> money is going into R&D for products we as photographers can use.
>         As for being a Leica zealot, I will proudly wear the title. Those of
> you who known me,  know I have a much more practical view of  Leica.
>         Sorry, if some of you didn't like my "good, better and Leica" line.
> It was meant to be FUNNY.
>
> Cheers,
> Sal DiMarco, Jr.
>
> PS to PeterK   Look in you company's employee magazine, you will see my name
> occasionally in the photo credits.
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