[Leica] LUG yearbook

[Nathan Wajsman]

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 Voigtländer 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:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Mark William Rabiner
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