Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had been booked to photograph HRH Princess Anne at a function and on arrival I joined the half a dozen press guys and TV crew who were there on the same mission. The first fellow photographer I stand next to has a chrome R8 (mine is black) and the same 28-70 Vario-Elmarit as I do! Bearing in mind how few pros in this country (UK) use these cameras, I would say that the chances of this happening are pretty remote. Needless to say we spent quite a bit of time taking Leica but unfortunately he is not on the internet so could not access the LUG. He did make a strange comment though - I asked him whether he had thought of getting an 'M' but he said that he wasn't sure he would be able to handle it. He, like me, was in his mid-fifties and was probably brought up on non-automatic cameras, and I explained its attributes but it seemed a bit beyond him. Got some good shots of HRH and the R8 performed well. It also coped with the atrocious weather and the fairly heavy rain! Gerry