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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Mac Survay
From: "John Shick" <bosjohn@mediaone.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:06:16 +0000

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>From: Bmceowen@aol.com
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Mac Survay
>Date: Tue, Mar 14, 2000, 2:12 PM
>

>
> 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
Yah, I am getting old. But neither Canon nor Leica has ever been
immortalized in song as far as I know.
John shick