Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mea maxima culpa! Guilty as charged, your Honour. But we only chatted Leica for five minutes in a camera museum 2000km from my home and I showed him over my camera. Dang! I should be on commission. Cheers, Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman NO ARCHIVE On 24 April 2012 14:17, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote: > I just got back from a 2 1/2 week camping swing through southern Utah and > saw two M9's in use. I could not communicate with the first person, who I > saw in Dead Horse Point, as he spoke only German, but the second person was > in Bryce Canyon and was from Australia. He was using his M9 and a Nikon > D700 to shoot a sunset. Said he has only had his M9 for a few weeks and > somehow bought it with the assistance of a person named Hoppy. Hmm. > > Some other interesting things I noticed. In the last five years of > traveling and camping since I retired, covering about 50,000 miles across > this country, I have seen a shift from Canon being by far the most dominant > DSLR to Nikon when the D300 came out. I have noticed that many European > tourists have Sony DSLR cameras, but not this trip. I barely saw any Sony > cameras. Nikon is still well over 50% in the parks I have been in this > trip. > > And of course there is the occasional Pentax and Leica M that crops up. > > Just some informal trends I have noticed. > > Now, got to work on and post a few photos. > > Aram > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information >