Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My input will be from my M8, and a Leica lens. I have always had Leica photos in my submissions. However I understand others this year may not. Gene Sent from my iPad > On Sep 24, 2019, at 1:20 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > 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 > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information