Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Actually Tim i think the "Magnum types" are known to actually > have no qualms > about USING their Leicas. > They are not posers. They are users. There is film in thier > cameras. A Leica > would in most cases be the first camera they would grab. I didn't say they were photographic poseurs - far from it, I merely meant Leica posers - I once saw half a dozen of them around a cafe table in Paris, literally taking pictures of each other (with their Leica's) with their Leica's prominent around their necks - oh and 3 of them had bush jackets on... - and as I recall, at least two Nikons one Canon and a Plaubel Makina - but non of those were put on display for the snapping - only the Leicas - which at times were "carefully" arranged on the table. My buddy (who had just come back from six months in Sarajevo, his French photojournalist girlfriend and I had a good chuckle as we watched. My friends comment, in his good, flat, Yorkshire growl was, actually, "posers". Oh - and if I had a lizardskin leica, I'd happily pose with it in my PJ's.... BTW - who had that chameleon that would turn black with red dots when it crawled over their M6? Didn't they use it to cover a Leica with...? Tim A - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html