Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] Buying a Leica lens?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:02:00 -0400

Did he shoot it with a twin lens Rolleiflex?

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/


> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 22:59:38 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Buying a Leica lens?
> 
> Mark,
> 
> You should try working as a pro in a small town, where you take any kind of
> job that comes in.  My late father-in-law did this in the 1940s.  A 
> property
> line dispute between two farmers had reached the point of going to court,
> and Herb was asked to take pictures of the area in question for use in
> court.  He ended up in a wooded area and came back with poison ivy on both
> arms, from bracing on a tree to steady his Speed Graphic.  He got the 
> shots,
> but suffered for it.
> 
> I doubt you will face such problems in Central Park.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 10:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Buying a Leica lens?
> 
> 
>> There is also the issue of how important is it for the pix you are about
>> to
>> take to come out. If its an important pro job then we know other pros
>> using
>> the glass and nobody is complaining a lot is riding on it but its and
>> informed buy..  If its amateur happy snaps then nobody really needs these
>> pix to come out. We can get another lens some day we like better and its
>> only so much water under the bridge.
>> 
>> - - from my iRabs.
>> Mark Rabiner
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>> 
>> 
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