Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Juggling lenses
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 12:55:44 -0700

Edward Meyers wrote:
> 
> If Henri Cartier-Bresson had walked around with a lensless
> Leica I think he'd be troubled.
> I still say that the Tri-Elmar is a good thing to "walk" with.
> 
> Marc, I know you prefer the longer focal lengths. So If
> someday there's a 50,75,90mm Tri-Elmar, you'd walk with it.
> Ed

ON my cross country road trip a few months back I had an afternoon sans Leica M6
with meter working as the battery cover had ejected somewhere over North America
and I got my backup Nikon camera out of the back of the truck between the Louis
the 14th Chevalier and the Murphy bed. 
I ran over and shot a few cows with sunset and as I zoomed in just enough to
eliminate the barbed wire foreground with my 35 to 70 AF Nikkor which cost a bit
more than a Leica M lens cap I thought:
"Weeeeeeeeee zooms are great!" Then I drove to Kansas City and got a battery cover.
But a 50,75,90mm Tri Elmar with Leica quality would get my attention.
Mark Rabiner