Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R8 brochure
From: Tom Kline <tkline@grizzly.pwssc.gen.ak.us>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 09:52:28 -0900

>>Can someone fr. Leica comment on the amazingly sharp center-fold picture
>>of an altar boy in some religious procession that appears in their R8
>>product brochure? Was it really taken with 35mm equip.?
>>
>>Max
>
>Your question is not at all insolent but quite justifiable. I have a
>Japanese friend who=B4s using large format cameras for his assignments. Two
>of his most prominent customers are Nikon and Sygma. They use his pictures
>for their own annual wall calendars! The landscape pictures are absolutely
>stunning, but they are certainly not taken with either a Nikon camera or
>Sygma=B4s lenses.
>
>Claes

Nikon does make LF lenses. So this could be ok so long as don't claim they
were shot with their F5 etc.!
Tom