Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Filter and shades
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:24:56 -0700

"Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Galen Rowell uses filters and Annie Leibovitz uses an 81A almost all the
> time.  I would hradly call them amateurs.
> 
> Peter K
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 7:29 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Filter and shades
> 
> Mark Rabbiner wrote <edited regarding Filters>:
> 
> .....You almost never see pros use' em. To me its the mark of the amateur
> not that that's so terrible. That and cheep tripods. Resin filters really
> freak me out but that's another ball of
> tree sap. I'm a disorganized slob and a clutz and I've never scratched a
> lens. Once in a blue moon do people who work behind camera store counters
> tell me anything which is of any value or is not plain wrong. Plenty of
> exceptions to that one though as there is probably at least
> one credible clerk in any decent town. That's it.

I meant close to plain glass filters like UV or skylight. Nobody loves
filters more than me. Plain glass goes on my car and house.
Mark :-) Rabiner