[Leica] Leica 100 Years

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

I'd like to participate.  I'd also like to express a different viewpoint 
regarding the requirements: I think we should *not* restrict ourselves to 
100% Leica, just that either a Leica lens or body be used in taking the 
picture. Just as we did with FOM2.  Here's why:

1.  Unless all pictures must be taken specifically for the project, we may 
not remember exactly what lens was used on what body when.  I almost always 
use Leica bodies, but my lens kit is "ethnically" mixed.  I've used 
Leitz/Leica, VC, Nikkor, Canon, and Sovyetsii RF lenses.  Do I really have 
to eliminate some of my best shots if I'm not 100% sure that the lens 
speaks, proper German?

2. HCB used a Sonnar on his Leica until he got his Summicron.  David 
Douglas Duncan used LTM Nikkors in Korea.  Yet they are often referred to 
as "Leica photographers." Would we eliminate them as being insufficiently 
pure?

Are we commemorating the Leica company or "The Leica Way" of 
photographing?  I can play either way, but I think we might be missing out 
on some good pictures if we are too restrictive.

--Peter



>Very definitely 100% Leica - Digital or analog - Glass and Body., new
>technology or film as old as Leica I.  I'd consider using both my IIIA and
>my M8.2.  It might be nice to include a very short biography and photo of
>the photographers holding their camera-  Most of us might be able to sum up
>our life in a few lines.