[Leica] Adrian Bradshaw, Ted Grant

[Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>]

>on 8/8/00 10:45 PM, Miro Jurcevic at miroj@ozemail.com.au wrote:
>
>> BTW: Why would any person have 9 M's. Is that one focal length each, or is
>> it one ASA each. You may need 81 M's to cover your bases.

>>the "poorer" members of the LUG can only drool at the idea of 9 M's. That's
>>more than any dealer normally has in our neck of the woods.

Adrian, Ted,

Miro Jurcevic does not seem to be able to understand the logic of owning
Leica equipment as a professional photographer. First it was Ted, now you
Adrian. And they don't take into consideration the working location of same.

When your job is providing photographs, you have cameras. You have spare
cameras. You have lots of lenses. Your cameras are simply tools. Like a set
of tools for an auto mechanic, scopes and analyzers for electronic
engineers, exotic cars for race car drivers, and the list goes on forever.

I have numerous cameras. 35mm M & R Leicas (lots), Hasselblad (lots), and
Linhof 4x5 (lots of lenses). I worked as a commercial photographer after
attending Brooks Inst. of Photography. I also went to Oregon State College
(Corvallis) and became an Engineer. So now I work as a publisher of
photography based books and a fine art photographer. I have a lot of photo
equipment to effect this end. I also work as a senior engineer in a Silicon
Valley company, designing the internals of the next generation digital
cameras. I personally own analog & digital scopes, and a 64 channel HP
logic analyzer. The company has many more. All tools.

And at work, I have digital cameras coming out of my ears. I belong to a
digital Email list and the folks there wish they had access to all of these
cameras. I could care less. I design them, but don't use them other than to
take them apart or see how they work.

The point is, whatever your line of work happens to be, you will amass the
tools, perhaps even a plethora of various tools depending upon your
situation. Tools are a requirement, regardless of what they are. Cameras,
exotic cars, electronic instruments, whatever...

This is a simple fact of life!

Happy photographing Adrian,

Jim

>At 03:21 PM 8/9/00 +0800, apbbeijing wrote:
>
>Don't know if you are referring to me but I have and use 9 Ms, usually one
>or two at a time but sometimes I carry four on a job if necessary.
>
>One reason I have so many is that I live in China where even a rush job to
>get a camera fixed involves pigeoning the camera to Hong Kong and getting it
>sent from there to Solms, sending a series of begging faxes and emails to
>the CEO and waiting at least two months (at least that is what the last one
>took) after which I then have to find some kind soul to handcarry the camera
>back to me in Beijing. If I have to fly to Hong Kong that costs me another
>$750 for each return flight.
>
>I have a lot of lenses too for much the same reason: one lens I dropped
>whilst covering a demo took over 6 months to be fixed in Solms...
>
>When my EOS cameras or lenses need fixing it is usually done on the spot
>here in Beijing or at most 12 hours. Likewise Nikon - got my Coolscan fixed
>in a day last week at no charge either.
>
>And yet I keep using Leicas despite all the hassle! The main reasons are
>that I like using them and I prefer the results
>
>Adrian Bradshaw
>Corporate and Editorial Photography
>Beijing, China