Re: [Leica] Another reason not to like the built in hood.

["Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>]

Mark,
Not to dispute the photograher who told you this tale, but, In the early
1970's I spent 4 years with my 2 Nikon F's photographing professional
motorcycle racers at about every racetrack in the US and Canada (resulting
in over 400 photos published) and let me tell you there was plenty of dust,
dirt, sand and in general the F's took many hard knocks including a scene of
me on ABC's Wide World of Sports running across a muddy racetrack as a herd
of motorcycle racers bore down on me. I made it to the embankment on the
other side but as I tried to scramble up the dirt embankment I fell chest
first (where the F's were) into the dirt. Later those same 2 F's spent 3
years cruising through the Carribean on my small sailboat.Still later one of
those F's photographed President Bush in the Oval Office. I still have those
2 F's and they have NEVER let me down nor have they ever seen the inside of
a repair shop. I wish I could say the same thing for my Leicas and if this
group is to be believed I will bet many others wish the same thing. Nikons
are simply the best camera ever built while your M-6 and my M2's, sadly is
still 1930 technology.
Steve 
Annapolis

 
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>From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Another reason not to like the built in hood.
>Date: Wed, Sep 22, 1999, 3:02 PM
>

>I was told by a photographer here in town in the early 80's who used a Leica SLR
>to shoot Janzen's swim wear catalogs that one grain of sand would stop his
>camera as the tolerances were so close; unlike a loose knit Nikon.
>Mark Rabiner
>