Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/12

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Subject: [Leica] Jim Rakete gets first S2
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:21:50 -0500 (EST)

Douglas Sharp wrote:

>Here's a short bio and some of his work - he's VERY well known over 
>here. (In spite of his name - Jim Rocket? :-) )
>
>http://www.camerawork.de/lang-en/photographen-cw-editor-153/55.html
>
>Of course, his portraits are of celebrities who are probably more or 
>less unknown outside German speaking countries. (But that's still a 
>pretty big market)
>
>Though this page does show Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt and G?nther 
>Grass - who should be quite well known elsewhere too ;-)

>From a quick glance at his photos it looks like the S2 is a good fit for 
>his work.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com