Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Younger photographers and Leica rangefinders
From: Jeffrey Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:46:24 -0500

Gee, Jim, I hope not.  I am teaching my children to understand light and to
be able to estimate exposures on nice wide latitude films.

	Buzz Hausner

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim Bauman [SMTP:jbauman@earthlink.net]
> Sent:	Monday, February 15, 1999 11:38 AM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	[Leica] Younger photographers and Leica rangefinders
> 
> 
> Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> wrote:
> 
> >...he had stated that young and
> >upcoming photojournalists were moving towards black and white
> photography,
> >and using Leica rangefinders. 
> 
> I'll bet that's not true nowadays with EOS, AF, and all the rest.
> Everything is getting to be so automatic, the days of young photographers
> with the ability to look at any scene and just "know" it's 1/60th
> at 5.6 with Tri-X etc. are probably long gone. 
> 
> Jim Bauman
>