Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Lifeboat...... exercise in futility
From: "Jeff S" <segawa@netone.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:31:23 -0600

- -----Original Message-----
From: BIRKEY, DUANE <dbirkey@hcjb.org.ec>
>Trying to choose two or three lenses for the rest of my life is an
>exercise in futility.  I could survive with a M-6 body a 24, a 50 and a
>90,  But I would miss the macro, the wide and the teles and zooms of my
>SLR's.   It would be sort of like playing golf with one club, It can be
>done and it might be fun for a day,  but it wouldn't be nearly as
>enjoyable as a lifelong pursuit..
>
And for those of us who hope to be around 50+ years from now, who can even
say if this film stuff will be around? I'm too young to be set in my ways--a
mere 25 years since I took my first photo; still in the experimental stage!

Jeff