Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Galen is sponsored by Nikon, that's the main reason. They use his name, and he gets $ome. - -----Original Message----- From: InfinityDT@aol.com [mailto:InfinityDT@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:14 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Rebuild my R8 In a message dated 9/7/99 2:10:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mrabiner@concentric.net writes: << When I started out in the late 70's about five of us had Nikon 24 2.8's on our cameras most of the time. It was my normal lens and almost never came off the camera. I shot most of the California Coast with one. When we all went commercial the 24's came off and the 85's and 105's came on. Mark Rabiner >> Look through Galen Rowell's books, the preponderance are shot with a 24 2.8 or an 85 f2. I wonder if anybody's ever asked him why he didn't/doesn't use Leica R (it's not going to be me!).