Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>> This is more than a bit of a mis-statement. It would be fair to say that independent photographers, who owned their own gear, supplemented their quite expensive Leica lenses with equally capable, but much cheaper, Nikon and Canon lenses. Marc <<< Nope, you're wrong about that, Marc. David Douglas Duncan was very clear that he switched to Nikon lenses because their sharpness blew him away, and he got other Korean War photographers to do the same thing for the same reason. The superior sharpness of Nikon lenses was what established the company in America. This is a part of the historical record. You're grafting current perceptions onto historical situations. - --Mike