Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] Buying a Leica lens?
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 23:09:35 -0500
References: <CB9E9CF8.1C797%mark@rabinergroup.com>

No, all he had was a 4x5 Pre-Anniversary Model Speed Graphic, plus a studio 
camera for portraits.  Times were tough, there was not enough money to buy 
another camera.  It went to feed a family of five.

I have his Graphic in a nearby closet.  And parts of his studio camera boxed 
up in my garage.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Buying a Leica lens?


> Did he shoot it with a twin lens Rolleiflex?
>
> - - from my iRabs.
> Mark Rabiner
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>
>
>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 22:59:38 -0500
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Buying a Leica lens?
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> You should try working as a pro in a small town, where you take any kind 
>> of
>> job that comes in.  My late father-in-law did this in the 1940s.  A 
>> property
>> line dispute between two farmers had reached the point of going to court,
>> and Herb was asked to take pictures of the area in question for use in
>> court.  He ended up in a wooded area and came back with poison ivy on 
>> both
>> arms, from bracing on a tree to steady his Speed Graphic.  He got the 
>> shots,
>> but suffered for it.
>>
>> I doubt you will face such problems in Central Park.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 10:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Buying a Leica lens?
>>
>>
>>> There is also the issue of how important is it for the pix you are about
>>> to
>>> take to come out. If its an important pro job then we know other pros
>>> using
>>> the glass and nobody is complaining a lot is riding on it but its and
>>> informed buy..  If its amateur happy snaps then nobody really needs 
>>> these
>>> pix to come out. We can get another lens some day we like better and its
>>> only so much water under the bridge.
>>>
>>> - - from my iRabs.
>>> Mark Rabiner
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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