[Leica] Leica 100 Years

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

At first when I read Teds thing yesterday on all Leica glass I was thinking
that I felt exactly the same about it. I was remembering how when you go on
a tour of Leica the first thing the guy says is LEICA IS A LENS COMPANY.
But Peter in this post has altered my viewpoint.
And I must say my opinion is now strongly this:

Either a Leica camera or lens should be used.
Preferably both but one or the other would do.

That would be my rule if I was running it.
Which I'm aware I am not.
But I get to express my opinion.

Leica use has always involved Nikkor and Canon and Russian lenes and God
knows what else lenses and now we'd not want to excluded the Voigtl?nder
brand made by Cosina made now some of which are exquisite.

But if I shoot with my 60 dollar Bessa L made by Cosina I think I should put
a Leica LTM lens on the front of it.
Leitz probably.
To enter it into the 100 year Leica thing.
Wouldn't kill me.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Peter Klein <pklein@threshinc.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:34:22 -0800
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica 100 Years
> 
> I'd like to participate.  I'd also like to express a different viewpoint
> regarding the requirements: I think we should *not* restrict ourselves to
> 100% Leica, just that either a Leica lens or body be used in taking the
> picture. Just as we did with FOM2.  Here's why:
> 
> 1.  Unless all pictures must be taken specifically for the project, we may
> not remember exactly what lens was used on what body when.  I almost always
> use Leica bodies, but my lens kit is "ethnically" mixed.  I've used
> Leitz/Leica, VC, Nikkor, Canon, and Sovyetsii RF lenses.  Do I really have
> to eliminate some of my best shots if I'm not 100% sure that the lens
> speaks, proper German?
> 
> 2. HCB used a Sonnar on his Leica until he got his Summicron.  David
> Douglas Duncan used LTM Nikkors in Korea.  Yet they are often referred to
> as "Leica photographers." Would we eliminate them as being insufficiently
> pure?
> 
> Are we commemorating the Leica company or "The Leica Way" of
> photographing?  I can play either way, but I think we might be missing out
> on some good pictures if we are too restrictive.
> 
> --Peter
> 
> 
> 
>> Very definitely 100% Leica - Digital or analog - Glass and Body., new
>> technology or film as old as Leica I.  I'd consider using both my IIIA and
>> my M8.2.  It might be nice to include a very short biography and photo of
>> the photographers holding their camera-  Most of us might be able to sum 
>> up
>> our life in a few lines.
> 
> 
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