Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/19
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At 05:45 PM 11/19/99 -0500, Marc James Small wrote:
>Let us suppose Jim and Eric are correct, and Adams really liked the Contax
>RF over the Leica RF and learned to like the Leica R towards the end of his
>life. Then, in that event, Adams becomes someone who would sell his
>endorsement, as he certainly DID endorse Leica in the early 1950's.
Now maybe what happened is that the complex shutter mechanism finally
turned Ansel off to the Contax, after all those years of using it. And the
simplicity of the Leica shutter won him over (something he has noted on the
record). He certainly wouldn't be the first photographer who's loyalty has
changed mid-stream.
If for one am guilty of that. And changing back, too!
Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA
http://www.neteze.com/ewelch
"The race isn't always to the swift,
nor the battle to the Strong...
But that's the way to bet."