Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right, Mark.....I agree totally.....I've made good on the dirt cheap Nikon MF glass (beautiful non-ai lenses -- all under $100... mint-) and the fantastic Nikon F/F2 (prefer std. prism, of course) They ain't never gonna be this cheap, in adjusted dollars, again.... Perfectly complement my (non-metered) Ms.... Walt On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Jim Bauman wrote: > > > > 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 > > I wish I was starting out now in photography with all the non AF Nikon > glass of above standard of the industry quality going for dirt cheap. > They refuse to spend their little student incomes on non AF glass. Poor > babies. Nikon AI glass has gotten to be of Classic standards in my book. > Of course what is slightly less ubiquitous and more desirable is older > Leitz glass, but I didn't know about that so much then. > Mark Rabiner >