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

[Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>]

Steve LeHuray wrote:
> 
> 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 ><Snip> 
> 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
> >

He was then agreeing with you. I always used to bring my Nikons to the beach.
I'm too afraid of my single M6 body getting into trouble. Will get braver with a
second body.
Mark Rabiner