Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]DDD was a famous Leica heretic. As the story goes, he was in Tokyo where they were giving away Nikkor lenses. He picked up an 85/2, tried it and sold the rest of his Leica M39 lenses for M39 lenses from Nikon. Presumably, he did the same with the Canon LTM and the Zeiss LTM. Bill Lawlor wrote: > Recently I was enjoying a copy of David Douglas Duncan's beautiful 1960 > book, Kremlin. I was surprised to see he took all the shots with M3D(?) > bodies but said his lenses were all Canon, Nikon, and Zeiss. Does anyone on > the list know why he would choose those lenses? > > Thanks, Bill Lawlor