Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yesterday I had a long conversation with a photographer named John Isaac, who for some years was the head of photography for the U.N. When John came to this country from India in the late 60s, he knew nothing about photography, but at some point someone gave him a camera and - he became an outstanding photographer, winning prizes left and right, which lead to the U.N. job. Anyway, early in his photo life - entirely self-taught... "I forgot to tell you something that might interest you, since you use a Leica. Back in 1972, I won a Leica M5 as the first prize in a photo contest. I did not know what a leica was because I was then using a Asahi Pentax Spotmatic camera and I thought that was the ultimate in photography. So, when they called me to tell me that I won the first prize and it was a Leica camera I was very disappointed and told the guy on the phone,"couldn't you have given me a Pentax?" He laughed at me and said well you could probably buy a few Pentaxes for the price of one Leica".. And sure enough in 1972 I did not have any money to buy any other lenses for the Leica other than what I had on the camera (40mm, I think) I did trade the camera for 2 Minolta SRT 201s and a few lenses and a flash and I still got some money back..That was my start in Photography..." :-) B. D. "I ain't the meat, it's the motion." - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html