Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Mac Survay
From: Bmceowen@aol.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:12:50 EST

In a message dated 3/13/00 8:06:08 PM, bosjohn@mediaone.net writes:

>We now have a generation of
>photographers who grew up to Simon and Garfunkle's "Take a photograph with
>my
>Nikon camera" Nikon, not Leica became the photographic ikon of the present
>generation. The image held fast by every kid who aspires to be a photographer
>is the photojournalist draped with Nikons.

I hate to break it to you but the generation that thinks of Nikon as the 
first choice of photojournalists is starting to age quite a bit. Canon seems 
to have had the edge for about a decade now.

Bob (bought first Nikon in '79) McEowen