Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/24

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Subject: [Leica] LUG yearbook
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:20:54 +0200
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I have on my shelf all the yearbooks up to the last one (2014), and I have 
always followed the self-imposed rule that at least the lens should be 
Leica. Checking the 2014 edition, I have one film picture shot with a 
Voigtl?nder Bessa R2M and a 90mm Tele-Elmarit, and one shot with the M8 and 
the 35mm Summarit-M. So more or less ticks all boxes. Needless to say, both 
photos were made during 2014. By then the bulk of my photography was done 
with non-Leica stuff, but for the yearbook I wanted only Leica images.

But again, this is my self-imposed rule, which I will follow for the 2019 
edition regardless of how much leeway Brian gives us.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 24 Sep 2019, at 17:14, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
> I kinda felt that was pretty obvious for years as we are the Leica Users 
> Group  to use the Leica we'd be using to put in the yearbook but was 
> solidly shot down like I was saying the Earth was flat. The first issues 
> were all about getting the thing going in terms of volume I was told so we 
> should not be too picky and the following issue would be Leica. That 
> didn?t happen. But lots more money for the charity.
> All of the years I entered I put two pix in one was a Leica shot the other 
> was a Nikon shot.
> As I recall a just as big question for entries for  the first issues was 
> film vs digital with many feeling at least one of your entries should be 
> film based. Mine was. I got scans made from film I shot with one of my 
> M6's on color neg. 
> It was nice the first issues being able to put pix to the names I'd see 
> posting every week but few were walking the Leica walk as well as talking 
> the Leica talk. It seemed just a bit lame. But when I first got on the LUG 
> most the the main posters had not owned a Leica for years and had great 
> reasons for how non practice they are as you can't take a proper photo  
> without auto focus and so on. Then people started all having websites and 
> galleries to put their images on and the only ones we'd see of these 
> people were recent digital captures. No scans from film.
> 
> Another item was how current the pix needed to be.. Mine were shot that 
> year right out of the camera hot off the press. Though I have a backlog of 
> a decade of having my M6's and IIIF's being my main cameras many hundreds 
> of rolls of film and prints. 
> But I do think it should be current not the best Leica shot you ever made 
> in your whole life; or your past Leica life.
> I was often told I was not a Leica person as my recent work has been Nikon 
> I think my body of work says otherwise.  I still have all my cameras and 
> glass. The glass will be on a mirrorless body soon enough. Maybe a cropped 
> format though. Which to me is very non Leica but I'm going to fly with it.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
> 



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