Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 8, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > A photographer friend of mine in 2006 had just gotten back from Europe and > had lunch with Martine Franck. She told him her the lens on her camera > sitting right there never came off her camera and she had used it for > years. > It was the year the much improved 28 Elmarit F2.8 ASPH came out and I may > have expressed surprise that she'd not moved up to that. And I can't > recall > if he discussed that with her. This lens she had fallen in love with was > the > pervious version a non asph 28 Elmarit F2.8 Type 4 (8 element 7 groups ). > This lens came out in 1992. So before that lens came out she had at least > 50 > years of shooting with other lenes. I have no idea of she only shot 28s > before then or not. I only got the impression she had fallen into the use > of > that later version of the 28 and became known for it. If I had to guess I'd > think she was in possession after 50 years of photography of more than a > dozen lenses. When she happened to have fallen into her love of the 28mm > focal length I'm not able to discover. It doesn't come up in a search. very cool story. glad I commented and got this additional background to your original statment thanks Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist