Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 10:42 AM Subject: [Leica] Nikon S3 war > >>> > 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 > ######### This is an intriguing story. How a man alone was able to change the behaviour of so many photographers, without MTF tests or other "scientific" measures ? Was DDD a guru ? A charismatic person ? Or a man employed by Nikon as an "evangelist" ?