RE: [Leica] Rebuild my R8

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

OK, perhaps I should use a word other than sponsored, like supported by....

As to why John Shaw did not switch to Leica R, who knows.  Nikon has always
had a reputation of a high quality product, and the Leica Rs of days gone by
did not.  Perhaps that was a consideration.

Peter K

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Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 2:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Rebuild my R8


In a message dated 9/7/99 4:21:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
peterk@lucent.com 
writes:

<< Galen is sponsored by Nikon, that's the main reason.  They use his name, 
and
 he gets $ome. >>

I don't know anything about Galen's arrangement with Nikon so I would not 
make the statement that he is "sponsored" by them, but even if you are 
correct, all Galen had to do before they would pay him a nickel was shoot 
with Nikon for two decades, publish several books, umpteen spreads in 
National Geo, and write a column in a national photo mag.   I attended a 
workshop with John Shaw (who also has shot with Nikon since the early 70's 
and appears in Nikon ads) and he said point-blank that Nikon pays him for
any 
of his images they use in their ads and that's all, and John really didn't 
come across to me as the lying type.  I will admit that I did not have the 
stones to ask John why he never switched to Leica R, either.