Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: Eric Welch >As a matter of fact, back then I hear it > was pretty much accepted that the only two cameras that were up to work in > the field in 'Nam was a Nikon F and a Leica M. They could stand rain, mud, > whatever. As you say, what works. > My old Kamera Bild brochure from Stockholm in 1968 shows Anders Engman standing in a Vietnam jungle with an M2 around his neck and a Nikon F over his right shoulder. In the darkroom, everything I printed in 35mm was from the Nikon F or M cameras, probably a few more M2's than M3's. The M4 had just come out and I can still remember the crowd gathered around the first one to show up. During that year there, I never saw a Leicaflex. Of course, I sure saw a lot of Hasselblads! Gary Todoroff