Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V9 #31
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 21:33:59 -0700

DAVE YODER wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering if this M-heavy crowd might be errantly assuming Salgado
> wouldn't use an R unless it were to compensate for an M shortcoming (the
> 60mm Macro debate). In my pre-Leica days, way before I thought I could
> ever afford to be part of the club, I think I recall Salgado using R's
> (gasp!) predominantly. I'm foggy but I think I also recall a picture of
> him, drenched black in oil from sabotaged Kuwaiti wells, with more than
> one Leica SLR hanging from him.
> 
> Dave Y.

Does he use the macro capabilities of the lens much? If not why would he
use the lens? Precise framing? The groundglass?
Mark Rabiner