Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/10

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Leica Yearbook
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:05:06 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014  Neal Friedenthal <neal at photoneal.com>wrote: 

>Steve,  many of us who were long time Leica users and owners, I've owned 
>and used Leicas for more than 50 years, can no longer afford Leica new 
>digital cameras every two or three years >and have opted for other makes. 
>If Leica offered a versitile digital in the price range of the Olympus OM-D 
>I'd be shooting with it.  As it is I still on occasion will mount an M lens 
>on my >Olympus.  I sold my M8 three years ago I'd love to get a new M 240 
>but at 7 grand I'll shoot the Olympus. 
=================================================================================================================================================
I too love my M's and my IIIf, but the only way I could afford to use my 
Leica and other RF lenses without shooting film was to buy a Fuji X-E2. 

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA POY 1978
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
 for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt