Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:52 PM 11/20/1999 -0000, B. D. Colen wrote: >Not to keep this one alive forever, but a flip through Requiem, glancing at >what the various photographers were photographed using, would certainly give >credence to Eric's argument. And, not that it means a whole lot, but the >jacket of A Road To A War, the terrific novel about a combat photographer >who disappears in Cambodia, features a photo illustration that includes an M >and an F.... Er ... Planet Earth to B.D. and Eric! Return to reality! This conversation was about the use of the Contax RF versus the Leica back in the days when the Contax was still available. Obviously, when it went out of production in '58 and off the market in '60, the Nikon RF have gone even earlier, it would no longer be anyone's choice. The period under consideration is 1931 to 1960. Though, there is a professional photographer here who does portrait shots (and good ones, too!) with an Ikoflex IIa, a camera which left production around 1956. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!