Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/29

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Subject: RE: Re: [Leica] Leica like a what - 15 years of progress &c
From: srlondon@ibm.net
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:22 -0400
 
- ----Original Message-----
   >From:    	Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
   >Photojournalists are about the most traditionalist of photographers, as I'm
   >sure you know. Simple is good. If they can catch on to the fact that the R8
   >fits that better than anything else, those who can afford it will.
   
Really?  Maybe it is an eastern thing (Boston), all of the photojournalists I've met were of the bigger/more expensive/auto everything mindset. In talking to them, it seems that they equate more expensive and newer equipment with a competitive edge in today's cutthroat market.