Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 01-07-1998 17:46 apbc wrote: >Of the press corps covering Kohl in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and >Vietnam I was the only one to be using Leicas (and not often at that). >Quite a few of the German diplomats and govt officials en route had >Leicas old and new though! Which brings me back to my point that Leica's >cachet is and always has been that it is the ultimate professional 35mm >camera however this is less and less true as time goes on: in crude >generalisations, those who want small, quiet and unobtrusive look >elsewhere, those who want ultimate image quality look to larger formats, >those who want fast and versatile look to Canon/Nikon AF so Leica's niche >is looking more and more like one based upon an engineer's or a jewel >collector's idea of photographic excellence and not that of a working >photographer. >(snip) >What say y'all to this? I can tell you that at NATO Ministerial meetings in Brussels, at least one of the official photographers who are allowed to "shoot" Ministers and officials during sessions uses one of the older Leica R cameras with telelenses on a monopod... Most of the others use Nikon however :-) Pascal - -------------------------------------------------------- Check out: http://members.xoom.com/cyberplace/ - -------------------------------------------------------- Macintosh PowerBook G3 - it eats Pentium notebooks for lunch - -------------------------------------------------------- <<< PGP public key available on request >>>