Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:25 PM 3/7/00 -0500, you wrote: >Ut talks about equipment too, stating that most shooters in Vietnam >carried a Nikon F >and a Leica, usually an M2. He states that those who used their Leicas >most were >always at a disadvantage because of slow rewinding. He says that in the >full-frame >version of his famous image you can see one of his colleagues struggling >to rewind >the film in his Leica - that guy missed the prize-winning picture! > >I guess the M4 hadn't caught on yet although, in a way, I feel M users are >still at a >bit of a disadvantage when it comes to rewind and reload in the heat of >the action. > >Emanuel Lowi I wonder how many photos were missed because the batteries were dead in the automatic re-wind cameras? Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com