Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ---------- >From: Bmceowen@aol.com >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Mac Survay >Date: Tue, Mar 14, 2000, 2:12 PM > > > In a message dated 3/13/00 8:06:08 PM, bosjohn@mediaone.net writes: > >>We now have a generation of >>photographers who grew up to Simon and Garfunkle's "Take a photograph with >>my >>Nikon camera" Nikon, not Leica became the photographic ikon of the present >>generation. The image held fast by every kid who aspires to be a photographer >>is the photojournalist draped with Nikons. > > I hate to break it to you but the generation that thinks of Nikon as the > first choice of photojournalists is starting to age quite a bit. Canon seems > to have had the edge for about a decade now. > > Bob (bought first Nikon in '79) McEowen Yah, I am getting old. But neither Canon nor Leica has ever been immortalized in song as far as I know. John shick