Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc James Small wrote: >>> Well, a number of Big Name photo-journalists, most notably Capa, used > Contax during the era under discussion. And the Contax was vastly > preferred for expedition work as it was somewhat more reliable than was the > Leica. There was only one Leica on Mount Everest before 1963, while >dozens of Contaxes had been going up and down the place for decades.<<< BIG SNIP............. Hi Marc, Hey well done, very informative. Interesting reading, thank you. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html