Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<snip>You are correct. But if the majority of AF-SLR users were to jump off a > bridge... > > ...I'll let your mother fill in the rest. <snip> > Terrible to say somethinglike that Eric! I thought better of you. <snip>Let me quote Peter Howe, former director of photography at LIFE (and the > NYT Sunday Magazine) and I believe is now with Audubon, or something like > that. I was giving him a ride in my car to the University of Missouri for > the Pictures of the Year awards in '87. I had seen him on the Today Show, > or Good Morning America that morning and he had stated that young and > upcoming photojournalists were moving towards black and white photography, > and using Leica rangefinders. I asked him about it, and he said he based > that on the number of portfolios he was reviewing for possible use in > LIFE. > And on knowing many of the best in the business. <snip> Another old time has been ehhh! I bet he knew Barnack himself.....(just joking)