Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/25

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Subject: [Leica] OT: A little history
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Tue Jan 25 15:40:35 2005
References: <20050124165116.20966.qmail@web20021.mail.yahoo.com> <97CFE020-6EA6-11D9-BBA4-000D933F4332@earthlink.net> <67B13F1E-6EF1-11D9-A98E-000A95DD7D76@charter.net> <E42459FC-6F26-11D9-997C-000A9578C446@ncable.net.au>

Well said!
S. Dimitrov

On Jan 25, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote:

>
> On 26/01/2005, at 3:51 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>
>> The article brings back memories.
>> Back in the early 90's I had decided to cover news for a weekly with 
>> 120 TLR and SLR. I remember being elbow to elbow with the AP folks, 
>> them cursing their digital Flintstone cameras and me cursing 
>> reloading 12 exposure rolls. In the space of 3 years from 95 to 98, 
>> everyone was shooting digital, myself including.
>> At the beginning of the 90's many news shooters would have an M2, M4, 
>> or an M6 with a 35mm along for the ride. By 96-97, even that practice 
>> fell by the way side. Now, when a news shooter shows up at an event 
>> with Leicas, it's when they're not on the clock, and are pursuing a 
>> personal project that never sees the light of day.
>
> Well some personal projects do ;-)
>
> Alastair
>
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Slobodan Dimitrov
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In reply to: Message from ferider at yahoo.com (Der Eiserne Reiter) ([Leica] Leica IIIc)
Message from feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli) ([Leica] OT: A little history)
Message from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] OT: A little history)
Message from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] OT: A little history)